title: An index for quantifying female education and child health in emerging economies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To construct an index to measure female education and child health in the least developed countries (LDCs) of Asia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The design of our index includes the variables of female education and child health defined in the goals of the Millennium Declaration. For this purpose, we used Pena's P2 distance method for 2011, the last year for which data were available for the set of variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have proposed a territorial measure and classification of female education and child health in the LDCs of Asia. We believe that the most striking differences between countries relate to basic female education variables such as girls' primary completion rate, and female literacy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Martín
authors.affiliation: Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: María del Mar
authors.initials: Mdel M
authors.lastname: Holgado Molina
authors.affiliation: Department of Spanish and International Economics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Salinas Fernández
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003906:Developing Countries; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006285:Health Planning; D006293:Health Promotion; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education*; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors