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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 2015
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ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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Wealth index factor score for urban/rural (5 decimals) (M_WEALTHSURMN)

Data file: ZWE2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 489
End: 496
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00000000 0
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.

Description

Definition
WEALTHSURMN (MV191A) refers to the household's wealth index value (urban- and rural-specific) generated by the product of standardized scores (z-scores) and factor coefficient scores (factor loadings) of wealth indicators. Many researchers may prefer to use the complementary variable WEALTHQURMN (MV190A), which reports quintile ranking (from poorest to richest, urban- and rural-specific) of the man's household, in terms of wealth score, for a given sample.

For additional information about the calculation and meaning of the wealth index, users should consult the Wealth Index [URL omitted from DDI.] summary from The DHS Program website and/or the DHS Comparative Report on The DHS Wealth Index [URL omitted from DDI.].

The variables used to calculate wealth index scores are sample-specific. See Comparability.

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Concept
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Wealth index Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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