Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Angola, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

AGO_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) [Angola], Ministério da Saúde (MINSA) [Angola], Ministério do Planeamento e do Desenvolvimento Territorial (MINPLAN) [Angola] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Wealth index factor score (5 decimals) (C_WEALTHS)

Data file: AGO2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 587

End: 598

Width: 12

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

WEALTHS (V191) refers to the household's wealth index value generated by the product of standardized scores (z-scores) and factor coefficient scores (factor loadings) of wealth indicators. Most researchers will want to use instead the complementary variable WEALTHQ (V190), which reports quintile ranking (from poorest to richest) of the woman's household, in terms of wealth score, for a given sample.

For further information about the calculation and meaning of the wealth index, see the description of WEALTHQ, the summary information about the wealth index on the DHS Program website here [URL omitted from DDI.] and/or the DHS Comparative Report on "The DHS Wealth Index" here [URL omitted from DDI.].

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

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Wealth index Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

WEALTHS (V191) is a 12-digit numeric variable.

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