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MICS

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005

Sierra Leone, 2005
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
Central
Statistics Sierra Leone, UNICEF Sierra Leone
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Wealth index quintiles (wlthind5)

Data file: hl

Overview

Valid: 0
Valid (weighted): 0
Invalid: 0
Invalid (weighted): 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric
Weighted variable: V234

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Poorest
2 Second
3 Middle
4 Fourth
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.
Question pretext
Recoded variable

Description

Universe
Children aged 0-4
Source of information
Constructed variables used for analysis

Imputation and derivation

Imputation
The wealth index is calculated by the program wealth.sps, which creates a data file wealth.sav that contains identification variables, a variable containing each household wealth score and a variable containing each household's wealth index. The program wealth.sps first produces frequencies of all household variables concerned with wealth or assets. It then recodes variables describing household and individual assets into dichotomous variables. The program then uses factor analysis (specifically principal components analysis) to calculate a wealth score for each household. Finally, it uses the wealth score to create household wealth quintiles (that is, the wealth index) and then saves them in an SPSS data file. Once the wealth index has been calculated, executing the program wealth_merge.sps will add it to the analysis files. All the above mentioned SPSS files can be found in the data processing folder under technical information.
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