Discrimination-related health inequality and role of social capital among marriage migrant women in South Korea

Table 6 Decomposition of the difference in discrimination-related health inequalities between the non-linking vs. the linking social capital among marriage migrant women in South Korea

	Total differential decomposition
	β’s	Mean of x’s	CIs	GC_ε	Total	(%)
Experiences of discrimination^a	0.0052	−0.0038	0.0030		0.0044	28.3
Demographics
Age	−0.0002	−0.0001	−0.0041		−0.0044	−28.6
Length of residence (log)	0.0011	−0.0002	−0.0007		0.0002	1.0
Country of origin: China	−0.0001	−0.0001	−0.0000		−0.0000	−0.3
Country of origin: Vietnam	−0.0012	0.0004	−0.0004		−0.0011	−7.5
Income: <1 million KRW	0.0000	−0.0000	0.0009		0.0009	5.7
Income: 1–2 million KRW	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000		0.0001	0.3
Income: Missing	−0.0009	−0.0000	0.0007		−0.0001	−0.9
Marital status: Separated	0.0000	0.0000	0.0002		0.0003	1.7
Marital status: Missing	0.0003	0.0000	0.0001		0.0004	2.3
Education: ≥Bachelor’s degree	0.0001	0.0005	0.0008		0.0014	9.0
Education: Missing	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000		0.0000	0.1
Economic activity: Employed	−0.0004	−0.0000	0.0000		−0.0004	−2.3
Economic activity: Missing	−0.0001	−0.0001	−0.0002		−0.0004	−2.5
Additional variables
Language proficiency	0.0002	0.0001	0.0010		0.0012	8.0
Change of social position	0.0006	−0.0000	0.0001		0.0007	4.2
Protest against discrimination	0.0049	0.0012	−0.0006		0.0055	35.8
Residual					0.0070	45.5
Total	0.0096	−0.0020	0.0008	0.0070	0.0154	100
Percent	62.3	−12.8	5.0	45.5	100

Abbreviations: β regression coefficient, CI concentration index; GC _ε generalized concentration index for residual
Source: 2009 National Survey of Multicultural Families, Republic of Korea
Note: β’s, mean of x’s, CIs, and GC_ε were estimated in Equation (3). The reference groups were listed as follows: Others (country of origin), ≥2 million KRW (income), Married (marital status), Less than Bachelor’s degree (education), Unemployed (economic activity). The nonresponse weight provided from the data source was applied
^aExperiences of discrimination is a dichotomous variable (0 if a summary discrimination score is zero; else 1)

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