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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2016
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UGA_2016_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Wealth index factor score for urban/rural (5 decimals) (M_WEALTHSURMN)

Data file: UGA2016-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 506
End: 513
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Value Category
00000000 0
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
WEALTHSURMN (MV191A) refers to the household's wealth index value (urban- and rural-specific) generated by the product of standardized scores (z-scores) and factor coefficient scores (factor loadings) of wealth indicators. Many researchers may prefer to use the complementary variable WEALTHQURMN (MV190A), which reports quintile ranking (from poorest to richest, urban- and rural-specific) of the man's household, in terms of wealth score, for a given sample.

For additional information about the calculation and meaning of the wealth index, users should consult the Wealth Index [URL omitted from DDI.] summary from The DHS Program website and/or the DHS Comparative Report on The DHS Wealth Index [URL omitted from DDI.].

The variables used to calculate wealth index scores are sample-specific. See Comparability.

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Wealth index Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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