After equivalising for the costs of disability in adults, the most common chronic health conditions among those in multidimensional poverty were still arthritis and related disorders (13%), back problems (12%), mental and behavioural disorders (9%), hypertension (5%) and asthma (4%).
Equivalising for the additional costs of disability increased the proportion of individuals in multidimensional poverty for all conditions and the conditions with the highest proportion of individuals in multidimensional poverty changed.
Of those with a chronic health condition, 27% were in multidimensional poverty; whereas for those with no chronic health condition 5% were in multidimensional poverty after equivalising for the costs of disability.
Time-variant variables were: weekly family income equivalised using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) weights (included as a continuous variable) and an indicator for sweep of data collection in order to account for secular and age-related trends.
Total household income over the previous 12 months was equivalised to adjust for the presence of other adults and children in the household, using a rescaled version of the Organisation of Economic Development's modified equivalence scale.
After equivalising income for the costs of disability in adults, 82% of people in multidimensional poverty identified with having a chronic health condition an increase of 8% points.
Equivalised income is adjusted for the size and composition of the household to better reflect disposable income.
The probability of making mostly local journeys is lower for men, with rising equivalised incomes, who have a car available on a sample day, with dry weather, with high school education, who possess a bicycle or a public transport season ticket, and who are at least 2 km from the nearest train station.
Total weekly household income was equivalised according to the McClements equivalisation scale and divided into quintiles.
Hence, we have a pseudocontinuous measure for total family income, which was then equivalised using McClements household score provided in the HSE to account for household size and composition.
