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Measuring Child Socio-Economic Position in Birth Cohort Research: The Development of a Novel Standardized Household Income Indicator

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The assessment of early life socioeconomic position
                (SEP) is essential to the tackling of social inequalities in
                health. Although different indicators capture different SEP
                dimensions, maternal education is often used as the only
                indicator in birth cohort research, especially in multi-cohort
                analyses. Household income, as a direct measure of material
                resources, is one of the most important indicators, but one that
                is underused because it is difficult to measure through
                questionnaires. We propose a method to construct a standardized,
                cross-cohort comparable income indicator, the \"Equivalized
                Household Income Indicator (EHII)\", which measures the
                equivalized disposable household income, using external data
                from the pan-European Union Statistics on Income and Living
                Conditions (EUSILC) surveys, and data from the cohorts. We apply
                this method to four studies, Piccolipi\xC3\xB9 and NINFEA from
                Italy and ELFE and EDEN from France, comparing the distribution
                of EHII with other SEP-related variables available in the
                cohorts, and estimating the association between EHII and child
                body mass index (BMI). We found that basic parental and
                household characteristics may be used, with a fairly good
                performance, to predict the household income. We observed a
                strong correlation between EHII and both the self-reported
                income, whenever available, and other individual
                socioeconomic-related variables, and an inverse association with
                child BMI. EHII could contribute to improving research on social
                inequalities in health, in particular in the context of European
                birth cohort collaborative studies.

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, vol. 17, num. 5

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Measuring Child Socio-Economic Position in Birth Cohort Research: The Development of a Novel Standardized Household Income Indicator