SWORDC Seminar Series | Grant Gibson

Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
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On Friday February 8, 2019, Professor Grant Gibson, PhD, McMaster University, will be presenting a seminar entitled: O Brother How Art Thou? Propensity to Report Unmet Need​.

Abstract: Exploiting a unique survey/administrative dataset of hospital discharge data, we explore a commonly used variable in the health-equity literature for potential response biases (Self-Assessed Unmet Need). We find that along many dimensions upon which social-science researchers might map inequality, there exists non-trivial bias in the response to the survey instrument. The results of this work suggest that the cross-sectional studies employing this measure of inequality be interpreted very cautiously.

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Location Address: EV3 - Environment 3
200 University Avenue West
3412
Waterloo, ON, CA  N2L 3G1
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Host: SWORDC at the University of Waterloo Cost: Free