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Statement scores for poverty statements from PWR and scores for indicators collected in the survey data to create household index of wealth |
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Relevant statements (score) |
Relevant data from survey |
Score applied to survey data |
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| Employment, Self employment, Pensions, Money |
Shop owners (95.5) |
More than one household member has a salaried job |
2 |
| Has a business (93.8) |
Either one household member has a salaried job, or three or more have a pension or other work |
1 |
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| Both husband and wife employed (86.4) |
No household members have a salaried job, but two has a pension or other work |
0 |
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| Government (84.7) |
No household members have a salaried job, but one has a pension or other work |
-1 |
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| Taxis (80.8) |
No household members have a salaried job, pension or other work |
-2 |
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| Got job/employed (65.4) |
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| Receiving pension (44.4) |
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| Self employed (35.7) |
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| Pension and many responsibilities (29.9) |
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| Domestic work (28.7) |
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| Selling fruits and vegetables (28.4) |
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| Farms (24.0) |
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| Don't have/earn money/income (6.4) |
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| Not got job(s)/unemployed (5.7) |
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| No one is working (3.7) |
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| Schooling |
Private/expensive (90.1) |
If there are 20–25 year olds, if any attending or already achieved technikon or university |
2 |
| Attains university/tertiary (84.8) |
If there are 14–19 year olds and all are in school |
1 |
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| Able to/affords to go to school (61.4) |
If there are 7–13 year olds and all are in school OR If there are 14–19 year olds and any are not attending school OR If no 7–25 year olds in household |
0 |
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| Attains matric (40.4) |
If there are 7–13 year olds and any are not attending school |
-2 |
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| Can not afford/doesn't pay school fees (9.6) |
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| Unable to/can't afford to go to school (8.3) |
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| Doesn't go to school (5.2) |
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| Overall score; if there were young people from more than one age group in the household the average of the three scores was used |
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| Housing |
Tiled housing (95.7) |
Face bricks |
2 |
| Beautiful/attractive housing (90.4) |
Block bricks with cement covering |
1 |
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| Big house (87.9) |
Mud bricks, or block bricks without cement covering |
0 |
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| Small/little housing (39.8) |
Tin or mud and sticks |
-2 |
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| Bad/poor housing (22.7) |
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| No proper housing/shelter (15.0) |
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| Shacks (14.4) |
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| Mud housing (13.3) |
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| Not got housing (9.0) |
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| Not got shelter (3.2) |
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| Food, begging |
Little food (35.1) |
Food insecurity score 2–3 |
1 |
| At least have food (34.7) |
Food insecurity score 4 |
0 |
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| Mealy meal only (28.5) |
Food insecurity score 5–6 |
-1 |
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| Sleep without food (5.8) |
Food insecurity score 7–8 |
-2 |
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| No food (3.1) |
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| Begging (1.1) |
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| Beg for food (0.4) |
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| Sum of two questions about the frequency of poor food security during the last month* pre-scored as Never (1), Once only (2), A few times (3), Often (4). |
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| Cars |
Have/drive expensive/flashy cars (95.6) Have/drive cars (83.1) |
Own any cars |
2 |
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| Family and Household |
Widows 1.8, n = 15^ Orphanhood/no parents (0.0) |
Female Headed Household AND/OR Household consists only of children/young people |
-2 |
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* The two questions were During the last month how often a) have most of the family had a meal that consisted of pap alone, bread alone or worse, and b) have you or any of your own children gone without food or had a reduced amount to eat for a single day because of a shortage of food? ^ This statements is not listed in Table 1 because it was made less than 15 times in one stage, but was the second most common single statement about family and household made during the PWR process | |||
Hargreaves et al. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007 4:4 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-4-4 |
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