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Miguel Ángel Beltrán-Sánchez1, Miguel-Angel Martinez-Beneito1, Ana Corberán-Vallet1
1Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Valencia, Burjassot (Valencia), Spain.
Abstract:
Health surveys allow exploring health indicators that are of great value from a public health point of view and that cannot normally be studied from regular health registries. These indicators are usually coded as ordinal variables and may depend on covariates associated with individuals. In this article, we propose a Bayesian individual-level model for small-area estimation of survey-based health indicators. A categorical likelihood is used at the first level of the model hierarchy to describe the ordinal data, and spatial dependence among small areas is taken into account by using a conditional autoregressive distribution. Post-stratification of the results of the proposed individual-level model allows extrapolating the results to any administrative areal division, even for small areas. We apply this methodology to describe the geographical distribution of a self-perceived health indicator from the Health Survey of the Region of Valencia (Spain) for the year 2016.
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