In this latter study the authors used the highest (most advantaged) category of the simplified NS-SEC system, ' managerial/professional' as the socio-economic predictor variable.
The most advantaged had a higher risk of admission in four out of 17 MDCs, a similar risk in 11 out of 17 MDCs and s lower risk in 2 out of 17 MDCs.
These were standardised to produce a rank, where the theoretically most advantaged had a value of 1 and least advantaged a value of 0. The SII was calculated by running linear regression models using the socioeconomic rank to predict the outcome measure.
Inner and outer regional areas, as well as the socioeconomically most advantaged areas within major cities were likely to have high incidence of prostate cancer among males.
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SEIFA low – most disadvantaged; SEIFA high – most advantaged.
Each measure of socioeconomic position was ranked from the least advantaged to the most advantaged (with the mid-point of their range in the cumulative distribution used for each category) [ 20].
But nobody can say they haven't done as well as they possibly can, from the most advantaged to the most disadvantaged child.
The factor scores for labour market inequality did not follow this pattern; instead clusters ranked from the most advantaged to the least were as follows: Less Successful Informal (M = -1.32, SD = 0.41), Informal (M = -1.29, SD = 0.85), Emerging (M = -0.58, SD = 0.27), Residual (M = 0.45, SD = 0.32), Post-Communist (M = 0.65, SD = 0.59), Insecure (M = 0.73, SD = 0.72).
Investment capital could be directed to the furtherance of the sustainable public good, not wealth building for those most advantaged by the financial sector's structure.
