Wealth or income quintiles were derived from the household ownership of durable goods, dwelling characteristics and access to services (improved water, sanitation, and cooking fuel) for a total of 21 assets (12).
Income quintiles were generated from household ownership of durable goods, dwelling characteristics (type of floors, walls, and cooking stove), and access to services, such as improved water, sanitation, and cooking fuel.
Wealth or income quintiles were derived from the household ownership of durable goods, dwelling characteristics (type of floors, walls, and cooking stove), and access to services (improved water, sanitation, and cooking fuel) for a total of 21 assets.
Wealth or income quintiles were derived from the household ownership of durable goods, dwelling characteristics and access to services (improved water, sanitation and cooking fuel) for a total of 21 assets.
The household wealth variable provided in the dataset was derived using WHO standard approach to estimating permanent income from survey data on household ownership of durable goods, neighborhood and dwelling characteristics, and access to water, sanitation, electricity etc. [ 18].
This followed the approach of the DHS surveys using combined household-level information on land ownership, possession of durable goods and household dwelling characteristics (building material, sources of drinking water, type of toilet facility and main source of cooking fuel,).
Additional questions on household structure, dwelling construction, and durable good ownership were used to compute Socioeconomic Scores (SES) based on statistics from Demographic and Household Surveys (DHS).
The wealth index is constructed based on a number of binary variables that capture dwelling characteristics and ownership of durable goods using principal components analysis.
Two variables of household SES were created reflecting the education level (mothers' education); and ownership of durable household assets and characteristics of the dwelling structure (asset index).
Households were categorized into quintiles of socio-economic position (SEP) based on dwelling characteristics and possession of durable assets using principal component analysis.
