Using multiple modes to collect data is becoming a standard practice in survey agencies. While this should save costs and decrease non-response error it may have detrimental effects on measurement quality. This can happen because different modes have distinct measurement biases which, when...

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on a latent class model. This addresses some of the limitations that affect earlier work in this literature concerning the definition of types, such as partial observability, the...

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and persistence of multiple deprivation. Adopting a holistic approach to multidimensional deprivation, we construct measures of absolute and relative deprivation and use these measures...