Clustering of disability pension and socioeconomic disadvantage in Sweden: a geospatial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To characterize geospatial patterning of disadvantage in Sweden, we examined whether municipal-level indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage and disability pension (DP) rate were clustered, whether the different geospatial clusters were overlapping and whether the findings were similar among women and men.

Methods

Administrative national data from all 290 Swedish municipalities were used to determine the prevalence of DP and socioeconomic disadvantage [poverty, long-term unemployment, income inequality (GINI Index) and income inequality between women and men]. Geospatial cold spots (clusters of municipalities with a DP/socioeconomic disadvantage prevalence lower than the nationwide prevalence) and hot spots (clusters of municipalities with a DP/socioeconomic disa

SUBMITTER: Virtanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature