But electricity, bicycles, cars, even eggs (thanks to battery hens) also have fallen.
Measures of permanent income included various household characteristics and possessions: number of rooms, tables, and chairs in the house; number of cars owned; and presence of electricity, bicycles, clocks, buckets, dishwashers, refrigerators, fixed telephone lines, cell phones, televisions, and computers.
Aik Saath a local volunteer group, visited us with electricity generating bicycles, students were able to measure their power output and study the bikes using infra-red energy.
Yes, the electric bicycle!
Simple human-powered devices that use electricity, like bicycle lights, can generate energy but not store it.
The technologies include merry-go-round generators in schools, hand crank lighting in hospitals and health clinics during electricity outages and bicycle generators for off-grid businesses.
The enabling factors, other than educational status, were residence (urban vs. rural) and a wealth index based on the assets (electricity, refrigerator, radio, bicycle, donkey, and plough).
Ownership within aggregates of different variables defining the level of socioeconomic status included: telephone/mobile (60%), radio (50%), electricity (20%), bicycle (19%), television (18%), refrigerator/freezer (10%), and car/ truck (4%).
In all regressions we control for demographic characteristics like age, age squared, education, religion and household features, the number of durable goods held by the household (television, ratio, refrigerator, motorbike, car, bicycle, electricity), and rural or urban area.
Household wealth index, a proxy for household income, is comprised of the following assets: electricity, radio, TV, fridge, bicycle, motorcycle, car, phone, and type of the flooring material.
Asset score ranges from 0 to 11 and is made up of any ownership of goats, cattle, cart, bicycle, motorcycle, electricity, radio, TV, telephone, mobile phone, watches in the household.
