User's Guide to Ratio Variables¶
Firebaugh, G., & Gibbs, J. P. (1985). User's Guide to Ratio Variables. American Sociological Review, 50(5), 713-722.
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Mechanisms¶
- Per-Capita or Per-Unit Conversion
- Its failure mode is the mirror of its strength — it erases absolute magnitude, so a small entity with an alarming rate and a large entity carrying an enormous total can each be misread depending on which the audience fixates on.
This sourceExplains per-capita ratios as division by population size used to control the effect of absolute scale.
- Its failure mode is the mirror of its strength — it erases absolute magnitude, so a small entity with an alarming rate and a large entity carrying an enormous total can each be misread depending on which the audience fixates on.
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