How do the public value different outcomes of social care?
Estimation of preference weights for ASCOT
This RAND Europe Working Paper is part of the Measuring Outcomes for Public Service Users (MOPSU) project funded by the UK Treasury under the Invest to Save programme and led by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The preference study was undertaken as part of the personal social services element of the project, which is led by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), with the objective that the measures of social care outcomes will reflect the relative importance of the domains (e.g. food and nutrition, accommodation) and levels of these domains, rather than an assumption that all domains, and improvements between levels within those domains, are of equal importance. This Working Paper establishes preference weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) measures of social care outcomes, and examines whether the use of 4-level domains improves the sensitivity of the measure at lower levels of need than 3-level domains.
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- Pages: 62
- Document Number: WR-744-ONS
- Year: 2010
- Series: Working Papers
Contents
Chapter One
Survey design
Chapter Two
Sample characteristics
Chapter Three
Exploratory analysis of best-worst experiments
Chapter Four
Modelling the best-worst choice data
Chapter Five
Summary
Appendix A
Wording of domain levels
Appendix B
Choice elicitation and model estimation procedure in Best-Worst Scaling data
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