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Das Gupta Decomposition

Das Gupta decomposition is the general framework for standardizing and decomposing a difference between summary rates when several factors act at once and more than two populations must be compared. Developed by Prithwis Das Gupta and codified in his 1993 U.S. Census Bureau manual, it generalizes Kitagawa's two-population, single-factor decomposition to any number of multiplicatively or additively combined factors and any number of populations, producing factor effects that are exactly additive, symmetric, and internally consistent across every pairwise comparison.

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Das Gupta Standardization and Decomposition of Rates

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Das Gupta, P. (1993). Standardization and Decomposition of Rates: A User's Manual. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports P23-186. · URL
Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. · ISBN 9781557864512

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