Constructing Indices of Rural Living Standards in Northwestern Bangladesh
Constructing Indices of Rural Living Standards in Northwestern Bangladesh
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构建孟加拉国西北部农村生活水平指数
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2010
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R. Klemm
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Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson;A. Labrique;K. West;P. Christian;Sucheta Mehra;A. Shamim;M. Rashid;J. Katz;R. Klemm
这项研究旨在构建孟加拉国农村地区的生活水平指数，这些指数可用于研究健康结果或确定扶贫方案的目标人群。这些指数是利用家庭资产和房屋建筑材料数据的主成分分析构建的。它们的稳健性和使用经过测试，发现它们在内部是一致的，并与孕产妇和婴儿健康、营养和人口统计指标以及婴儿死亡率相关。从9或10个家庭资产变量得出的指数表现良好；增加更多变量不会获得什么好处，但如果使用更少变量，问题就会出现。提供了南亚农村背景下最具信息量的资产排名。在六年的研究期间，生活水平持续显著提高。结论是，在实地条件下收集的简单家庭社会经济数据可以用来构建可靠和有用的南亚农村社区生活水平指数，这些指数可以帮助评估家庭及其成员的健康、生活质量和能力。
This study aimed to construct indices of living standards in rural Bangladesh that could be useful to study health outcomes or identify target populations for poverty-alleviation programmes. The indices were constructed using principal component analysis of data on household assets and house construction materials. Their robustness and use was tested and found to be internally consistent and correlated with maternal and infant health, nutritional and demographic indicators, and infant mortality. Indices derived from 9 or 10 household asset variables performed well; little was gained by adding more variables but problems emerged if fewer variables were used. A ranking of the most informative assets from this rural, South Asian context is provided. Living standards consistently and significantly improved over the six-year study period. It is concluded that simple household socioeconomic data, collected under field conditions, can be used for constructing reliable and useful indices of living standards in rural South Asian communities that can assist in the assessment of health, quality of life, and capabilities of households and their members.