Reference no: EM132542075
Team: State Wise Infant Mortality Rates: In this exercise, we will examine the effect of GDP on health outcomes. You are given a panel data with state wise Infant Mortality Rates from the year 1997-98 to 2016-17 for states in India. You need to use appropriate knowledge of statistics and weave a story which examines the IMR and its connections to growth in GDP. The following will only be cues to analysis. You may follow up on these or could weave a different narrative.
High GDP Growth implies low IMR: Use team l's data on state GDP to categorize the states into two groups - high GDP growth group and low GDP growth group. Examine whether there is any statistical difference between the IMR of high GDP growth group when compared to the low GDP growth group.
- High GDP growth group: is the group of states with highest average GDP growth during the period of IMR data.
- You could use methods of chapter 10 to examine these differences even if the samples are small.
IMR Regional Improvement Patterns: Another hypothesis which is commonly extended for health outcomes is the fact that southern states have better health performances than its northern counterparts. Compare these two groups by ex¬amining the average difference in IMR from the starting of the period to the more recent period for the two groups.
- The difference in IMR for south state 1 would be /MR2o16-17 - /MR1997-98. similarly calculate for south state 2, 3, and 4. After you obtain these differ¬ences, take their average. Compare this average with similar differences for North state 1,2,3,4.
- Which north states you choose might make a difference. Justify your choices.
Attachment:- State Wise Infant Mortality Rates.rar