Equity profiles are available for Countdown priority countries with available DHS or MICS surveys. They highlight the magnitude, time trends and within-country inequalities for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions. The selected indicators belong to the four stages of the continuum of care, plus two composite indicators: the composite coverage index and the co-coverage indicator.

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The equity dashboard is an Excel spreadsheet which visualizes data on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators according to wealth, place of residence, and women’s education by country or region. The data sources are DHS, MICS or other relevant nationally representative surveys with focus women, children and adolescent health. Further instructions and a link to download the dashboard can be found at: https://www.equidade.org/dashboard.

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The list of indicators and stratifiers, along with their definitions, is useful for those interpreting that data or creating their own surveys. The list of indicator definitions is available here.  More details on the stratifiers is available here. The datasets with indicator estimates are provided upon request: countdown@jhu.edu.

Under-five mortality rates in Bangladesh, by wealth quintiles. (Data source: Bangladesh DHS 1993-2011)

The equiplot is a dot graph used to compare of inequalities within and between subgroups, where the distance between the dots is the absolute difference between subgroups.  The equiplot can be used to visualize inequalities between indicators, countries or even time trends. Support for generating equiplots is available through downloadable Stata code, an online tool, and this brief video tutorial.

Concentration curve for measles vaccination and underweight using data from the Nigeria 2008 DHS

The slope index of inequality (SII) and the concentration index (CIX) are complex inequality measures for ordered groups to measure absolute (SII) and relative (CIX) inequalities. The SII estimates the absolute inequality between the extremes of the stratifier distribution (e.g. wealth quintiles) through a linear or logistic regression.

You can download the SII Stata ado-file for using the following command:
net install siilogit, from("http://www.equidade.org/files")

The CIX is a relative inequality measure related to the Gini coefficient, showing how concentrated the health indicator is within the socioeconomic distribution.

You can download the CIX Stata ado-file using the following command:
net install cixr, from("http://www.equidade.org/files")

In this brief tutorial, Cauane Blumenberg from the International Center for Equity in Health in Pelotas, Brazil, demonstrates how to create an equiplot using Stata. [2 mins]

In this video Luiza Ricardo from the International Center for Equity in Health at Pelotas University, Brazil, explains how and why to include slope index of inequality in health equity analysis [4 minutes].

In this video, Leonardo Ferreira from the International Center for Equity in Health explains the value of using a concentration index (CIX) in equity analysis and how to calculate CIX using Stata.