Fig. 3: Association of excess deaths with ward-level deprivation indicators.
From: Attributed causes of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in a south Indian city
We illustrate estimates of the association between excess deaths and a ward-level measure of community deprivation, constructed as the first principal component of 15 socioeconomic indicators measured in the 2011 Census of India (Table S14). Values correspond to the absolute difference (in percentage-point units) in excess mortality, measured relative to expected deaths, associated with an increase by one standard deviation in the principal component-based measure of community deprivation. Lines denote 95% uncertainty intervals surrounding point estimates (medians), as estimated across regression models fitted across 10,000 independent draws from the distribution of the excess mortality outcome variable.
