Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples 2012

Guinea, 2012

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GIN_2012_DHS_v01_M

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Institut National de la Statistique (INS)

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Wealth index factor score (5 decimals) (hv271)

Data file: RECH2

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Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 120

End: 126

Width: 7

Range: -248800 - 266340

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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