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Mali 5 Wealth Index classification errors? [message #3773]

Mon, 09 February 2015 10:12

aligazan
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Registered: June 2014
Location: UK

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I am using Mali 5 dataset.

I was comparing variable V190 Wealth Index to variable V191 Wealth Index Factor Score, and it appears that there may have been some misclassification.

The range of V191 within V190 Poorest is -99968 to -71717 yet there are around 20 respondents with V191 between 100081 to 112373, which would be classified within Richer.

Please could you clarify whether this is correct? And if so, is the error in V190 (i.e. the miscoded variables should be recoded into the correct category within V190) or is the error in V191 (i.e. the miscoded variables are in the correct category for V190 but have an incorrect Wealth Index Factor Score)?

I would be interested to know also how the range of Poorest, Poor, Middle, Rich and Richest are categorised as there are not equal numbers in each category.

Many thanks

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		Mali 5 Wealth Index classification errors? By: aligazan on Mon, 09 February 2015 10:12
		Re: Mali 5 Wealth Index classification errors? By: Trevor-DHS on Wed, 11 February 2015 10:11
		Re: Mali 5 Wealth Index classification errors? By: aligazan on Fri, 20 February 2015 11:22
		Re: Mali 5 Wealth Index classification errors? By: Trevor-DHS on Fri, 20 February 2015 15:30

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