The wealth index is based on household ownership of consumer goods (such as radio, television); dwelling characteristics; type of drinking water source; toilet facilities and other characteristics related to the household's socio-economic status.
The factors found to be significantly associated with higher energy-dense snack food intake represented individual attitudes/behaviors (e.g., snacking while watching television) and characteristics of home/family (e.g., home unhealthy food availability), peer (friends' energy-dense snack food consumption), and school (e.g., student snack consumption norms) environments.
During the interviews with mothers, data were collected on ownership of durable assets (e.g. car, refigerator, bicycle, radio, television), housing characteristics (e.g. number of rooms, dwelling floor and roof materials, toilet facilities), and access to services (e.g. electricity supply, drinking water source).
Yet for once television's characteristic excess was matched by the enormity of the event.
A socioeconomic wealth index was constructed with the use of multiple correspondence analysis based on ownership of assets including mobile phone and television, and house characteristics including water source, roof material and toilet type.
A composite measure of household socio economic status was constructed with the use of multiple correspondence analysis based on ownership of assets including mobile phone and television, and house characteristics including water source, roof material and toilet type.
Socioeconomic wealth index was constructed with the use of multiple correspondence analysis based on ownership of assets as mobile phone and television, and house characteristics including water source, roof material and toilet type.
"If I don't commit suicide, then otherwise my body is very healthy," he told Indian television with a characteristic chortle.
Other coalition forces captured airfields in western Iraq and were airlifted into Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Baghdad.Reports that Saddam had been killed in early air raids seemed false, but doubts were raised about the authenticity of television appearances of characteristic defiance.
There are very few shows which make a permanent impact on the television gene pool, their characteristics visible elsewhere for decades.
After controlling for age, gender, socioeconomic status, school performance, television screen time, personality characteristics and smoking status of peers and parents, each additional 10 tobacco advertising contacts increased the adjusted relative risk for established smoking by 38%9595% CI 16% to 63%; p<0.001) and for daily smoking by 30%9595% CI 3%to64%4%; p<0.05).
