Mikko Kotila

Chart, 1 October 2014

Women who report fair or poor health: fewer the higher their household’s income; more, among the poorest, where their state’s income is shared least evenly.

State income inequality
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
05101520household income, by fifths: 1 the lowest, 5 the highestin a hundred women12345
  1. In the poorest fifth, about 9 women in a hundred report fair or poor health where their state’s income is shared most evenly, and 17 where it is shared least.
  2. In the second fifth, still more where inequality is high: 12.5 against 9.9.
  3. Above them the difference is gone, or turns the other way: in the richest fifth, 2 or 3 in a hundred, wherever they live.
The share of women who reported fair or poor health, by household income and by the income inequality of their state. Values read from the chart in the post, to about a tenth of a point.

Poverty from #sostec blog