Selection on wealth is more marked in urban populations, where migration is relatively more likely among households above mean wealth.
"Bling" does not mean wealth.
To reflect a focus on differences between economic status in poorer, compared to non-poor communities, we created aggregate-level measures by ranking the mean household wealth index for each community, and then created a dichotomous measure by coding the lowest 40% of communities poor (coded as 0, the reference category), and the highest 60% as non-poor (coded as 1).
"Sláinte" means "health," "agus" means "and," and "táinte" means wealth.
"Dhan" means "wealth" and teras means thirteenth day.
When the 50 children with at least one suspect result were compared with the 79 children with no suspect results, no significant differences were seen based on mean age, sex, test used, wealth index, diarrhoea rate or rate of undernutrition.
The obtained weights were then applied to the 2012 data and scores for the pooled sample standardized with respect to 2006; that is, in 2006 the wealth index has zero mean and unit variance.
On account of lack of information on household income, a wealth index developed by means of the principle component analysis (PCA) was used as a proxy measure for the economic status of the households.
5 Being HIV-affected through loss of spouse to AIDS not analyzed due to very small numbers 6 β = linear regression coefficients 7 Adjusted for sex, age group, marital status, education, wealth index, ethnicity and slum of residence 8 * means that p < 0.001, ** means that p < 0.01, *** means that p < 0.05, n.s.s
