Development of multifactor index for assessing quality of life of a tribal population of India: multilevel analysis approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The main objective of this study is to develop a multilevel multi-factor index to assess the quality of life of the Malayali tribal population of India at the household and village levels based on nine domains, namely, Demography, Economy, Health, Human Development, Infrastructure Development, Work Participation, Recreation, Social Capital and Self Perception. An attempt is made to classify the individuals as well as villages by the overall scores of a multi-factor -index within a community which will help policymakers to develop concrete policy recommendations for the improvement of the quality of life of this tribal group.

Method

Multilevel factor analysis is utilized to determine uncorrelated meaningful factors and their respective weights using Mplus software

SUBMITTER: Bagavandas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893862 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature