Subjective socioeconomic status: an alternative to objective socioeconomic status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Subjective "ladder" measurements of socio-economic status (SES) are easy-to-administer tools that ask respondents to rate their own SES, allowing them to evaluate their own material resources and determine where it places them relative to their community. Here, we sought to compare the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social status to the WAMI, an objective measure of SES that includes data on water and sanitation, asset ownership, education, and income.

Methods

Leveraging a study of 595 tuberculosis patients in Lima, Peru, we compared the MacArthur ladder score to the WAMI score using weighted Kappa scores and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. We identified outliers that fell outside the 95^th percentile and assessed the durability of the inconsiste

SUBMITTER: Zhao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10044732 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature