Descriptive Data Analysis of Inequality of Economic Opportunity using the Queensland Family Cohort Pilot Study
In: The Australian economic review, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 398-405
ISSN: 1467-8462
AbstractThe Queensland Family Cohort Pilot Study follows 450 women over the course of their pregnancy and after giving birth, collecting a wealth of information on socioeconomic characteristics, health, healthcare use and biological samples. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how these data may be used to measure inequality of opportunity, between advantaged and disadvantaged populations, for mothers, partners and babies, in terms of their mental health and use of scarce health care resources. This paper provides the foundation for future analyses when a wider Queensland study is proposed to collect data from 12,500 families.