Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people … rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people … rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …

This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which … measures currently used in the poverty literature can be usefully applied to measure obesity and provide us with measures which …

This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in … Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic … the data, transitions into and out of obesity are examined, with higher rates of transition into obesity observed for …