Socioeconomic variables included occupation, education, and television and land ownership, which have been used in other studies in Bangladesh to indicate wealth (Argos et al. 2007).
A line running from the base of the thumb to the little finger indicates wealth acquired through inheritance or family allowances.
The numbers were about the same for landed and landless individuals, indicating that wealth did not buffer the environment enough to prevent natural selection from culling or favoring individuals.
A Nri dignitary was unearthed with ivory, also indicating a wealth in trade existed among the Nri.
A variable indicating participants' wealth was their number of pigs.
However, the qualitative data hint at an alternative interpretation of the relevance of these variables suggesting that in addition to indicating household wealth, they may also indicate traditional status.
Positive and significant concentration indices in all three surveys indicated that wealth and program exposure were correlated; however this relationship was not necessarily linear.
These lines don't indicate material wealth, so much as they represent skill in acquiring riches and how it can be done.
As a very perceptive article in the New York Magazine, Lisa Miller describes how new psychological research indicates that wealth erodes empathy with others.
In the cortege are groups of male mourners and lamenting women, and servants carry the funerary furniture, which indicates the wealth of the dead man.
