How reliable is the asset score in measuring socioeconomic status? Comparing asset ownership reported by male and female heads of households.

ABSTRACT: Asset scores are widely used as the preferred method of measuring socioeconomic wellbeing of households in developing countries. We examine the degree of discrepancies in reporting asset ownership by male and female heads of the same household. Household asset scores were estimated separately for male and female responses, using Principal Component Analysis, the method widely used in the literature, and households were categorized into wealth quintiles. The results indicate that only half of the households belonged to the same quintile groups for both male and female response-based asset scores. In addition, the two estimates of asset scores within the same quintile deviate by more than 20% for 71% of households in the top three quintiles and for 18% in the poorest two quintiles. Inter-ind

SUBMITTER: Khan MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9955958 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature