The phrase "asset indicator" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, investment, or asset management to refer to a metric or signal that provides information about the value or performance of an asset.
Example: "The asset indicator showed a significant increase in value over the last quarter, prompting investors to take a closer look."
Alternatives: "asset metric" or "asset signal".
The error term, υ, includes the remaining dwelling damage that cannot be explained by the intensity of the natural hazard and the asset indicator of wealth.17 This is our indicator of household (revealed) vulnerability at the time of the earthquake.
The use of an asset indicator as a proxy measurement for SES has been validated in developing country contexts (26– 26).
For the analysis in paper (II) an absolute asset indicator is constructed by weighting each asset-variable equally in five subindicators, namely 'modern assets', 'livestock assets', 'power supply'waterter and sanitation' and 'dwelling structure'.
Open image in new window Fig. 6 Total community asset indicators for vulnerability and resilience to severe storm j, j = I, II, III, IV.
Asset indicators are combined in the calculation of the 'Asset Index'.
Wealth quintiles were constructed using standard principal components analysis of household asset indicators [ 28].
Using household asset indicators it becomes evident that poorer households utilize PHCC services more than richer households.
Wealth index quintiles were constructed using standard principal components analysis of household asset indicators [ 32] and were included in all multivariate analyses.
The proportion of households with specific asset indicators that made up the asset quintile are included in Supplemental Table 2. Use of an improved drinking water source did not significantly differ between participants and controls (Table 1).
The asset indicators in this survey include household ownership of 19 different durable consumer goods, 5 building materials and style of the household dwelling, and the household's drinking water sources.
For the construction of the 2011 asset index, some asset indicators were excluded from the PCA, as they showed either incoherent results (negative value of a positive asset), or an unequal distribution across districts, which reflects geographical differences in the distribution of an asset, rather than individual.
