I am new here and I would like to seek your advice on how to interpret Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition results. Specifically, I want to explain differences in depression between two countries (A and B). In this exercise I use -Oaxaca- command (introduced by Ben Jann in 2008) with options -logit- and -weight (1) specified. The command I used is as follows:
Code:
oaxaca depression age gender area work edu ses_cat mstt club fsupp console alone, by(country) logit weight(1)
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Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition Number of obs = 6,265 Model = logit Group 1: country = 0 N of obs 1 = 3779 Group 2: country = 1 N of obs 2 = 2486 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ depression | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- overall | group_1 | .5654935 .0080592 70.17 0.000 .5496977 .5812893 group_2 | .4485117 .0099587 45.04 0.000 .4289929 .4680304 difference | .1169819 .0128112 9.13 0.000 .0918723 .1420914 explained | -.0618174 .0173442 -3.56 0.000 -.0958113 -.0278235 unexplained | .1787992 .0209686 8.53 0.000 .1377015 .2198969 -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- explained | age | .0014983 .0009054 1.65 0.098 -.0002762 .0032727 gender | -.0026961 .0012159 -2.22 0.027 -.0050793 -.0003129 area | .0047169 .0015552 3.03 0.002 .0016689 .007765 work | .0041793 .0019572 2.14 0.033 .0003432 .0080154 edu | -.003192 .001866 -1.71 0.087 -.0068493 .0004653 ses_cat | .0011321 .0029647 0.38 0.703 -.0046785 .0069428 mstt | .000751 .0031287 0.24 0.810 -.0053811 .0068831 club | -.0078419 .005699 -1.38 0.169 -.0190117 .0033279 fsupp | -.0046566 .002206 -2.11 0.035 -.0089803 -.000333 console | -.0555361 .0156262 -3.55 0.000 -.086163 -.0249093 alone | -.0001722 .0009044 -0.19 0.849 -.0019447 .0016003 -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- unexplained | age | -.305768 .127458 -2.40 0.016 -.5555811 -.0559548 gender | .0122104 .0183583 0.67 0.506 -.0237711 .0481919 area | .0277098 .0086721 3.20 0.001 .0107129 .0447068 work | .005129 .0119323 0.43 0.667 -.0182578 .0285159 edu | -.0006374 .012872 -0.05 0.961 -.0258661 .0245912 ses_cat | -.0805741 .0331369 -2.43 0.015 -.1455212 -.015627 mstt | -.0290486 .0123182 -2.36 0.018 -.0531918 -.0049053 club | .0113543 .0112411 1.01 0.312 -.0106778 .0333863 fsupp | .0216929 .027068 0.80 0.423 -.0313594 .0747453 console | .1185258 .1612595 0.74 0.462 -.1975371 .4345887 alone | -.0141596 .0051225 -2.76 0.006 -.0241995 -.0041197 _cons | .4123646 .2173369 1.90 0.058 -.0136078 .8383371 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) Since I used the -logit- option so do I need to use -eform- option to report results?
2) How to interpret significant coefficients in the unexplained component?
Thank you.
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