The LGAs will be ranked by the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Advantage and Disadvantage, and two will be included from each of the low, middle and high tertiles of socioeconomic advantage.
For each Australian local government area, an index of relative advantage has been calculated on the basis of census data.
The 31 LGAs in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne are ranked by the Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Advantage and Disadvantage 23 and divided into high tertile, middle tertile and low tertile.
In order to determine SES, the residential postcode of each patient was matched to the corresponding Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 'Index of Relative Advantage and Disadvantage' , which incorporates variables such as income, education, occupation, housing and employment [ 18].
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Each patient was assigned to a quintile of area disadvantage (of increasing advantage from Quintile 1) based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics-derived Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD).
*Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economicc Indexes for Area index of relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage.
There was no correlation between the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage Score and any of the selection criteria.
We used the deciles generated from the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage Score (IRSAD Score) as the index of choice for this study.
We defined SES using the area-level socioeconomic index for areas (SEIFA) provided in the data (the index of relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage, measured at Census Collection District areas).
