Age-adjusted disability rates and regional effects in Russia

We provide three measures of age-standardized disability rates for each Russian region and show that most, though not all, of the regional patterns in disability prevalence disappear with standardization. Disability prevalence remains unusually high for women in St Petersburg and Belgorod but the &a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aleksandr Andreev, Charles Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2010-10-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/27/