The index assessed housing characteristics including floor, wall and roof material; ownership of agricultural land, livestock, herds and other farm animals; and household assets including televisions, radios, clocks, fans, and mobile and non-mobile phones.
The index incorporated information on roofing materials, ownership of agricultural land, livestock ownership, and ownership of household assets including televisions, radios, clocks, fans, mobile phones, and dhiki (traditional wooden thresher) [ 8].
The economic status of each household was calculated by the NDHS using principle component analysis of more than 40 asset variables including: type of housing building materials, ownership of durable goods such as television and radio, as well as ownership of agricultural land [ 20].
The restrictions of the act related to secrecy, the control of fissile materials, the ownership of patents and the operation of production facilities placed a number of legal roadblocks in the way of private nuclear power stations.
We also assessed household characteristics such as household size, number of rooms, sources of water for household use, housing materials and ownership of household assets.
A composite socio-economic status indicator (wealth index) was created using information on source of drinking water, type of toilet facilities, housing construction material, household assets, ownership of any form of transportation, ownership of animals, land ownership and source of family income.
Some are even calling for what is known as a circular economy, a comprehensive rethink of our current model of production and consumption, where one company's waste is another's raw material, and where obsession with the ownership of material goods is moderated.
Use of these strains for commercial applications, however, is restricted by patent protection and/or materials ownership policy.
However, there are already potentially rich reserves of secondary materials via high ownership of Electrical and Electronic Equipment EEEE) in economically-developed nations.
Three major mediating pathways have been suggested between SEP and health, namely material factors (e.g. income, employment status, ownership of material goods such as a car or home), psychosocial (e.g. stress)/psychological (e.g. distress) factors and health behaviors (e.g. smoking, alcohol consumption) (Fig. 1) Adler and Ostrove, 1999; Adler and Stewart, 2010.
For others, having no ownership of material goods meant they were stuck in their homeless status: " Yes, that's what I want, material stuffs.
