Demographic and Health Survey 2014

Kenya, 2014

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KEN_2014_DHS_v01_M

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Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Wealth index factor score (5 decimals) (hv271)

Data file: RECH2

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 122

End: 128

Width: 7

Range: -250248 - 376404

Format: Numeric

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Wealth index variables - Wealth index factor score (5 decimals)
Generated with a statistical procedure known as principal components analysis, the wealth index places individual households on a continuous scale of relative wealth. DHS separates all interviewed households into five wealth quintiles to compare the influence of wealth on various population, health and nutrition indicators. The wealth index is presented in the DHS Final Reports and survey datasets as a background characteristic

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