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Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? [message #8896 is a reply to message #8878]

Tue, 12 January 2016 11:03

Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Dear User,
Here is a response from Dr. Shea Rutstein:
Quote:

The wealth index score can be used directly to calculate the concentration index. There is no need to recalculate by region since it is nationally comparable for a given survey.

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		Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Sun, 13 December 2015 03:44
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 13 December 2015 18:47
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Sun, 13 December 2015 22:44
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Mon, 14 December 2015 00:27
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Mon, 14 December 2015 00:48
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Mon, 14 December 2015 01:25
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 15 December 2015 11:45
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: user-rhs on Tue, 15 December 2015 18:48
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Sat, 19 December 2015 00:57
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Akib on Sat, 19 December 2015 00:51
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: owraza on Mon, 11 January 2016 04:36
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 12 January 2016 11:03
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: owraza on Wed, 13 January 2016 07:29
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: thuda on Wed, 27 April 2016 21:51
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 03 February 2017 15:24
		Re: Can the wealth index be used to measure wealth inequality? By: Hassen on Sun, 06 May 2018 20:46

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