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The measurement of socio-economic status: investigation of gender-and age-specific indicators in Australia: national health survey 1995 Mishra, Gita D., Ball, Kylie, Dobson, Annette J., Byles, Julie E. and Warner-Smith, Penny 2001, The measurement of socio-economic status: investigation of gender-and age-specific indicators in Australia: national health survey 1995, Social indicators research, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 73-89. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads ball-measurementofsocioeconomic-2001.pdf Author post print application/pdf 83.33KB 188 Title The measurement of socio-economic status: investigation of gender-and age-specific indicators in Australia: national health survey 1995 Author(s) Mishra, Gita D. Ball, Kylie Dobson, Annette J. Byles, Julie E. Warner-Smith, Penny Journal name Social indicators research Volume number 56 Issue number 1 Start page 73 End page 89 Publisher Spinger Netherlands Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2001-10 ISSN 0303-8300 1573-0921 Summary Objective: To investigate thecorrelations between age- and gender-specificmeasures of socio-economic status versus healthstatus as measured by the SF-36. Design: Population based study. Participants: 38187 people aged between18 to 79 years who participated in the NationalHealth Survey in 1995. Results: Factor analysis producedconsistent results that were interpreted interms of five conceptually meaningful domains(employment, housing, migration, family unitand education). The relative rank of thefactors differs between groups and in somecases factor composition requires items to beadded or deleted from the conceptual domains. Conclusions: Age- and gender-specific SESscores based on these factors had strongerassociations with the physical and mentalcomponents of SF-36 than either an area basedindex or scores derived from males aged 40–44years. Overall the results supported thehypothesis that SES measures composed of socialand demographic items exhibit important age-and gender-specific differences which arerelevant for health. Language eng Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30008412 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research School of Health Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 03 Feb 2009, 14:39:34 EST Thu, 04 Jun 2009, 11:22:37 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 15 times in TR Web of Science Cited 16 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 555 Abstract Views, 188 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 15:31:22 EST

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