Global Gender Gap Health and Survival Subindex
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | socstr_si_im_gggi_hss |
| Category | Social structure |
| Label | Global Gender Gap Health and Survival Subindex |
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"Global Gender Gap Health and Survival Subindex" is a subindex of the "Global Gender Gap Index" that includes two components: sex ratio at birth and healthy life expectancy. The index ranges from 0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap.
Coding rules
This subindex provides an overview of the health disparities between women and men using two indicators:
- Sex ratio at birth and
- Healthy life expectancy.
The first indicator "Sex ratio at birth" aims to capture the phenomenon of "missing women," commonly observed in countries with a strong preference for sons. The second indicator "Healthy life expectancy" measures the gap in healthy life expectancy between women and men. This metric estimates the number of years both women and men can expect to live in good health, accounting for years lost due to violence, disease, malnutrition, and other factors.
To ensure consistency, all data is first converted to female-to-male ratios. These ratios are then truncated at the "equality benchmark," which is set at 1, indicating gender parity (equal numbers of women and men). After normalizing the indicators by equalizing their standard deviations, the subindex is calculated as the weighted average of the individual indicators. The highest possible score is 1 (gender parity), and the lowest is 0 (gender disparity).
The benchmarks for gender parity and disparity have remained consistent, enabling year-on-year comparisons and relative country rankings over time.
Teorell et al. (2024:1316) define the variable as "Health and Survival (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap). This subindex provides an overview of the differences between womens and mens health through the use of two indicators. The first is the sex ratio at birth, which aims specifically to capture the phenomenon of missing women, prevalent in many countries with a strong son preference. Second, we use the gap between womens and mens
healthy life expectancy. This measure provides an estimate of the number of years that women and men can expect to live in good health by taking into account the years lost to violence, disease, malnutrition and other relevant factors."
Bibliographic info
Citation:- Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Cem Mert Dalli, Rafael Lopez Valverde & Paula Nilsson (2024). The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan24. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government, doi:10.18157/qogstdjan24
- Welzel, C. (2013). Freedom rising: Human empowerment and the quest for emancipation (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- World Economic Forum. (2023). The global gender gap report 2023. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/
- Kusum Kali Pal, Kim Piaget, and Saadia Zahidi (2024). Global Gender Gap Report 2024. World Economic Forum. Available at https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/
- Schäfer, Andrea and Karin Gottschall (2015): From Wage Regulation to Wage Gap. How Wage-Setting Institutions and Structures Shape the Gender Wage Gap Across Three Industries in 24 European Countries and in Germany. In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39 (2), p.467 - 496, http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/20/cje.bev005
Misc
Project manager(s): Responsible for data editing, description (WESIS) and entry: Andrea Schäfer (2021-2025, Version 0.001); Principal Investigator: Irene Dingeldey, Ulrich Mückenberger
Data release:- Version 0.001: Initial release with data from The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version January 2024
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Cem Mert Dalli, Rafael Lopez Valverde & Paula Nilsson (2024). The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan24. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government, doi:10.18157/qogstdjan24
- Welzel, C. (2013). Freedom rising: Human empowerment and the quest for emancipation (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- World Economic Forum. (2023). The global gender gap report 2023. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/
