Estimating the absolute wealth of households
AbstractObjective To estimate the absolute wealth of households using data from demographic and health surveys.Methods We developed a new metric, the absolute wealth estimate, based on the rank of each surveyed household according to its material assets and the assumed shape of the distribution of w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862015000700011&lng=en&tlng=en |