Strangers in a strange land: mapping household and neighbourhood associations with improved wellbeing outcomes in Accra, Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Urban poverty is not limited to informal settlements, rather it extends throughout cities, with the poor and affluent often living in close proximity. Using a novel dataset derived from the full Ghanaian Census, we investigate how neighbourhood versus household socio-economic status (SES) relates to a set of household development outcomes (related to housing quality, energy, water and sanitation, and information technology) in Accra, Ghana. We then assess "stranger" households' outcomes within neighbourhoods: do poor households fare better in affluent neighbourhoods, and are affluent households negatively impacted by being in poor neighbourhoods? Through a simple generalized linear model we estimate the variance components associated with household and neighbourhood status for our outcome

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615188 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature