Health Index - Possible Problem

This may or may not be intentional by design but I just don't know anymore so figured I should ask a question that I have had for a few years. I'm not asking Andy to disclose any formulas or inner workings of the game, I just would like to know if the math on the Health Index calculation is actually intentional or an error.

With the other main government indexes, their calculations follow a predictable and very simple math path, where Health bucks the trend. All I am asking is if it is intended, I am not calling for changes for the love of god please don't make some radical sudden change in response to this question or take offense to it being asked.

Here is a number by number example of what I am referring to:
Elementary Schools Needed - 35075
Elementary Schools on Hand - 76113
Elementary School Index - 217

Roads Needed - 290344
Roads on Hand - 586495
Roads Index - 202

Finance Income -

Thanks, auditor it was on my todo list, just not very high.

I suspect it's intentional, and is tied in some way to population age distribution. But, haven't gotten to checking that hypothesis.

It would have been sensible to bake in such a relationship so that if you got a lot old people, you need more healthcare. This something I would have expected to be there from the beginning.

If Andy doesn't respond, I will move it up my list of things to figure out.

It's obviously intended. This post is a repeat of the chat, with further calculation example.

After excluding, the outliers that have been losing or gaining hospitals at regular pace (eg, those where the health index is lagging due to moving average calculation)



As you can see (Have/Need) = (Health index) until 125 (regression says), Then above 125 it requires increasingly more hospitals to raise the index a defined amount.

I took a regression of the straight part of the line, and then transformed it to get the equation for calculating the required (have/need) to achieve a desired health index. Its complicated, and I'm not going to try to describe it unless someone realllly wants to know.

(have/need*100)=(desired Health index*1.3455)-43.38

Using Auditor's provided example, where 196

After some further input (angry criticism). I went over to LU to diversify my dataset

Country #	Have	need	Have	Health	Delta
/Name			/Need	Index
1205	169	188	89.89361702	90.24	-0.346382979
3033	205	224	91.51785714	91.62	-0.102142857
2115	2807	2887	97.2289574	97.46	-0.231042605
1554	236	220	107.2727273	107.36	-0.087272727
Hymyland	711	580	122.5862069	122.65	-0.063793103
472	298	242	123.1404959	123.35	-0.209504132
LU701	1275	973	131.0380267	J James Folsom All worlds 22 Jun 2024 20:38Link Forum malfunctioned. A Andy All worlds 24 Jun 2024 14:16Link The health index is not linear. if you double the number of hospitals, the index will not double. it is close to linear at low levels, it is getting further from linear as the numbers increase. as far as I remember, this is true to more than one index at higher levels. Sign in to reply