Borooah V K
University of Ulster, School of Public Policy, Economics and Law, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, UK.
Soc Sci Med. 1999 Jul;49(2):253-66. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00101-x.
The central purpose of this paper is to investigate, using data from the Sample of Anonymised Records of the 1991 Census for Britain on over 80,000 male and over 75,000 female employees between the ages of 41 and 67, the relationship between occupational class and health inequality. The specific aim of the investigation is to answer two questions. First, after controlling for non-class attributes, what was the contribution of occupational class to differences between the classes in the proportion of persons in them with a long-term limiting illness?
a lot or very little depending on the classes that are being compared and whether the comparison is for men or for women. Second, how much of the inequality in the distribution, over the persons in the sample, in their probabilities of suffering from a long-term limiting illness was due to inequality between persons in the same occupation class (within-class inequality) and how much was due to inequality between persons in different occupational classes (between-class inequality)?
for men, approximately one-quarter and, for women, approximately one-fifth of overall inequality in health status was the result of differences in occupational class.
本文的核心目的是利用1991年英国人口普查匿名记录样本中的数据，该样本涵盖了8万多名年龄在41岁至67岁之间的男性雇员和7.5万多名女性雇员，来研究职业阶层与健康不平等之间的关系。调查的具体目标是回答两个问题。第一，在控制了非阶层属性之后，职业阶层对各阶层中患有长期限制性疾病的人员比例差异有多大贡献？
这取决于所比较的阶层以及比较的对象是男性还是女性，可能贡献很大，也可能很小。第二，在样本中的人员患长期限制性疾病的概率分布不平等中，有多少是由于同一职业阶层内人员之间的不平等（阶层内不平等）造成的，又有多少是由于不同职业阶层人员之间的不平等（阶层间不平等）造成的？
对于男性而言，健康状况总体不平等中约四分之一是职业阶层差异导致的结果；对于女性而言，这一比例约为五分之一。
