A severely ageing population is confronting Japan. Health conditions, particularly among aged people, are attracting more concern. Health inequality in Japan is a topic as important as income inequality.

Using the self-reported health data in Japan, the study analyses health inequality. The data collected is ordinal categorical data, that is, qualitative data. The study calculates the inequality index in Japan based on ordinal categorical health data and decomposes the health inequality by age groups and sexes using the Bayesian method.

Haruhisa Nishino is a Professor of Economic Statistics in the School of Economics, Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include income inequality, economic statistics and econometrics.

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