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We measure household economic status by using a wealth index, and the households are categorized into five groups; poor, middle, richer, and richest.
Socioeconomic status was assessed using a wealth index based upon current occupation, household income, assets and household facilities [ 27].
The key exposure is household wealth measured at baseline using a wealth index, an asset-based indicator.
Household economic status was measured using a wealth index estimated by Principal Component Analysis of all household variables describing housing and assets.
The present study assessed socioeconomic status using a wealth index based on a weighted sum of self-reported household assets and the more conventional measure of parental education [ 1, 21].
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In the analysis, I use a wealth index to approximate the long run economic situation of the household.
We used a wealth index as a measure of SES, which was created based on information on household assets, including land, construction materials of the houses, household assets, number of certain clothes and shoes owned (Saha et al. 2008a; Tofail et al. 2008).
Information on household assets (clock or watch, electricity, radio, television, mobile telephone, non-mobile telephone, refrigerator, and solar panel) was used to derive a wealth index using the Kenya DHS [ 9].
Household wealth is measured using a constructed wealth index based on ownership of 25 household durable assets, house and roof material, livestock ownership and water source.
Therefore, in this study the asset based approach was used to construct a wealth index across households in Nigeria using the NARHS Plus data.
Principle component analysis was used to calculate a wealth index for households to allow comparison across socioeconomic groups.
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