Monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires the
global community to disaggregate targets along socio-economic lines, but little has been …

Background Epidemiological studies often require measures of socio-economic position
(SEP). The application of principal components analysis (PCA) to data on asset-ownership …

Executive Summary The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator
Cluster Surveys (MICS) contain a “wealth” of information on the health and demographic …

Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or
expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data …

Introduction: The wealth index is a commonly-used measure of socio-economic position
(SEP) in low-and middle-income settings, but there is concern that it is strongly influenced by …

Research on the effects of socioeconomic well-being on health is important for policy
makers in developing countries, where limited resources make it crucial to use existing …

We consider an asset‐based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well‐
being and poverty. Our motivation is to see if there exist simpler and less demanding ways to …

Background Accurate tools for assessing household wealth are essential for many health
studies in developing countries. Household survey and participatory wealth ranking (PWR) …

Socio‐economic status (SES) indices are increasingly being used to characterise (in) equity,
with the assumption that SES indices are reliable. However, the accuracy of such SES …

Background There is no standardized approach to comparing socioeconomic status (SES)
across multiple sites in epidemiological studies. This is particularly problematic when cross …