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Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Zimbabwe, 2015
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ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M
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National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Wealth index combined (hv270)

Data file: RECH2

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 123
End: 123
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
1 Poorest
2 Poorer
3 Middle
4 Richer
5 Richest
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Others

Notes
Wealth index variables
The wealth index is a composite measure of a household's cumulative living standard. The wealth index is calculated using easy-to-collect data on a household’s ownership of selected assets, such as televisions and bicycles; materials used for housing construction; and types of water access and sanitation facilities.

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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