Codes and Frequencies
Description
For all households with complete survey results, WEALTHT refers to the relative wealth of the household where the woman lives, divided into tertiles from the poorest (Lowest tertile) to the richest (Highest tertile). Wealth is determined by a constructed wealth score (SCORE).
SCORE is a constructed variable that combines information on household assets, livestock owned, floor, roof, and wall construction materials, water sources, and toilet facilities to create a total wealth score for the household.
- Household assets include possessions such as radios, televisions, bicycles, furniture, etc. These options may vary slightly by country and survey year.
- Livestock counted are chickens, sheep, goats, horses/camels, cows/bulls, and local cattle. These options may vary slightly by country and survey year.
- Floor materials are divided into three categories: natural materials (e.g. earth or dung), rudimentary materials (e.g. planks or palm bamboo), and finished materials (e.g. vinyl, ceramic tiles, cement, or carpet). These options may vary slightly by country and survey year.
- Roof materials are divided into three categories: natural materials (e.g. a thatched roof or dung/mud), rudimentary materials (e.g. corrugated iron or tin cans), and finished materials (e.g. asbestos, concrete, or tiles). These options may vary slightly by country and survey year.
- Wall materials are divided into three categories: natural materials (e.g. no walls, cane, or dung/mud), rudimentary materials (e.g. bamboo and mud, plywood, cardboard, or reused wood), and finished materials (e.g. cement, bricks, or wood planks with shingles). These options may vary slightly by country and survey year.
- Water source includes options such as water piped into the dwelling, a public tap, a dug well, and others.
- Toilet facility includes options such as a piped sewer system, composting toilet, etc.
Unweighted means and standard deviations for each of the indicator variables are then used in a principal components analysis to determine the overall household wealth score.
The questions associated with this variable were included in the household questionnaire.
Comparability
The general meaning of WEALTHT is consistent across samples, but the variables used to calculate the wealth index quintiles and the level of wealth implied by a specific quintile-ranking are country- and survey-specific. Thus, for example, a given set of household amenities and services could place a household in the top tertile in a low-resource country but in the middle tertile in a wealthier country. WEALTHT should thus be interpreted as the relative economic standing of the woman's household within a specific country at a particular point in time.
For samples that are not nationally representative, such as Nigeria 2017 (Oyo region), wealth quintiles and tertiles are calculated relative to the sampled population, not the nation as a whole.
For all but Burkina Faso and Niger samples, the PMA team originally calculated wealth quintiles for households. PMA calculated wealth tertiles for Burkina Faso and Niger due to small sample size and distribution of wealth among households Burkina Faso and Niger samples. IPUMS has calculated the wealth tertiles for all other samples using SCORE and HQWEIGHT.
Universe
- Burkina Faso 2014 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2015 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2016 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2016 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2017 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2018 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2020 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2021 Female and Household: All persons.
- Burkina Faso 2022 Female and Household: Persons in households that were part of the cross-section in Phase 2 or were newly enrolled due to attrition in the EA in Phase 3.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2013 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2014 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2015 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2015 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2015 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2016 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2016 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2017 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2017 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2018 Round 7 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2018 Round 7 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2019 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2019 Female and Household: All persons.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kinshasa) 2020 Female and Household: Persons in households that were interviewed in Phase 1 or were newly enrolled due to attrition in the EA in Phase 2.
- Congo Democratic Republic (Kongo Central) 2020 Female and Household: Persons in households that were interviewed in Phase 1 or were newly enrolled due to attrition in the EA in Phase 2.
- Cote D'Ivoire 2017 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Cote D'Ivoire 2018 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Cote D'Ivoire 2020 Female and Household: All persons.
- Cote D'Ivoire 2022 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2014 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2014 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2015 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2016 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2017 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2018 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ethiopia 2019 PMAET Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2013 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2014 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2014 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2015 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2016 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Ghana 2017 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2016 (Rajasthan) Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2017 (Rajasthan) Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2017 (Rajasthan) Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2018 (Rajasthan) Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2020 (Rajasthan) Female and Household: All persons.
- India 2022 (Rajasthan) Female and Household: All persons.
- Indonesia 2015 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Indonesia 2016 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2014 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2014 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2015 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2015 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2016 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2017 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2018 Round 7 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2019 Female and Household: All persons.
- Kenya 2020 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2015 (Niamey) Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2016 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2016 (Niamey) Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2017 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2018 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2020 Phase 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2022 Phase 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Niger 2023 Phase 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2014 (Kaduna) Round 1 Female and Household: Persons in households in the Kaduna state of Nigeria.
- Nigeria 2014 (Lagos) Round 1 Female and Household: Persons in households in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Nigeria 2015 (Kaduna) Round 2 Female and Household: Persons in households in the Kaduna state of Nigeria.
- Nigeria 2015 (Lagos) Round 2 Female and Household: Persons in households in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Nigeria 2016 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2017 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2017 (Oyo) Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2018 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2019 (Kano) Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria 2019 (Lagos) Female and Household: All persons.
- Nigeria (Lagos) 2020 Female and Household: Persons in households that were interviewed in Phase 1 or were newly enrolled due to attrition in the EA in Phase 2.
- Nigeria (Kano) 2020 Female and Household: Persons in households that were interviewed in Phase 1 or were newly enrolled due to attrition in the EA in Phase 2.
- Uganda 2014 Round 1 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2015 Round 3 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2015 Round 2 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2016 Round 4 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2017 Round 5 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2018 Round 6 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2019 Female and Household (R6 Follow up): All persons.
- Uganda 2020 Female and Household: All persons.
- Uganda 2022 Female and Household: All persons.
Availability
- Burkina Faso: 2014-2018, 2020-2022
- Congo (Democratic Republic): 2013-2020
- Cote d'Ivoire: 2017-2018, 2020, 2022
- Ethiopia: 2014-2019
- Ghana: 2013-2017
- India: 2016-2018, 2020, 2022
- Indonesia: 2015-2016
- Kenya: 2014-2020
- Niger: 2015-2018, 2020, 2022-2023
- Nigeria: 2014-2020
- Uganda: 2014-2020, 2022
