This index was based on ownership of certain household assets such as refrigerator, television, motorcycle and car.
The wealth index is a socio-economic index used as an indicator of household wealth based on ownership of assets and consumer goods such as source of drinking water, type of toilet facility, type of fuel used for cooking, ownership of various goods among other household characteristics.
Measures of socioeconomic status were education, occupation, and household wealth (an index based on ownership of a number of consumer items, such as a television and car).
Wealth: $360 million, based on ownership of the group's entire assets.
Household wealth is measured using a constructed wealth index based on ownership of 25 household durable assets, house and roof material, livestock ownership and water source.
The first $200 million that's collected goes into the entity and gets divided based on ownership.
Based on ownership we classified these facilities into government and private.
Household wealth scores based on ownership of assets were generated using principal components analysis.
Based on asset ownership (such as mobile phone, TV, or refrigerator), ownership of means of transport, agricultural material, and livestock, as well as housing characteristics (such as type of walls and roof, source of lighting, or the source of water), an index was constructed using principal component analysis (15).
Wealth measures were constructed using an asset index constructed through principal components analysis, based on asset ownership (such as bicycle, radio, bed) and structural characteristics of the home (such as roofing and building material) [ 26].
