Careful measures: an exploration of the sex and gender dimensions of a deprivation index
- Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Womens' Health (ACEWH)
- British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH)
- Centres of Excellence for Womens Health (CEWH)
- Online
- Poverty and health
- Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
- sex and gender-based analysis
- SGBA
- Women and poverty
Printer-friendly versionExplores whether women and men (girls and boys) have the same experiences of material and social deprivation and of health, and how these similarities or differences are accounted for in terms of indicator development and structure. Examines the opportunities for and the limitations of one deprivation index to represent the different experiences of men and of women in Canada by conducting a sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) of the indicators included in the index and calculating the index by sex using Statistics Canada's Census data for Vancouver, Winnipeg and Halifax. Results suggest that a deprivation index may not apply to men and women equally, and point to the need for thorough exploration of sex and gender differences associated with components of multivariate indices to ensure that they reflect the experience of men and women.
The Canadian Women's Health Network and the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health program are financially supported by Health Canada through the Women's Health Contribution Program. The views herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Health Canada.