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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Volume 2012, Article ID 481538, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/481538 Research Article The Relationship between Health and Household Economic Status Using Spatial Measures in Iraq, 2004 Faisal G. Khamis Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, AL-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, P.O. Box 130, Amman 11733, Jordan Correspondence should be addressed to Faisal G. Khamis, faisal ukm@ Received 27 August 2011; Accepted 4 February 2012 Academic Editor: Kai Yuan Cai Copyright © 2012 Faisal G. Khamis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study addresses spatial effects by applying spatial analysis in studying whether household economic status (HES) is related to health across governorates in Iraq. The aim is to assess variation in health and whether this variation is accounted for by variation in HES. A spatial univariate and bivariate autocorrelation measures were applied to cross-sectional data from census conducted in 2004. The hypothesis of spatial clustering for HES was confirmed by a positive global Moran’s I of 0.28 with P = 0.010, while for health was not confirmed by a negative global Moran’s I of −0.03. Based on local Moran’s I , two and seven significant clusters in i health and in HES were found respectively. Bivariate spatial correlation between health and HES wasn’t found significant (Ixy = −0.08) with P = 0.80. In conclusion, geographical variation was found in each of healt