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Constructing socio-economic status indices: how to use principal components analysis.

S. Vyas, L. Kumaranayake

2006.11.1HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czl029

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How PCA-based indices are constructed, how they can be used, and their validity and limitations are reviewed, and issues related to choice of variables, data preparation and problems such as data clustering are addressed.

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VYAS, S.; KUMARANAYAKE, L. Constructing socio-economic status indices: How to use principal components analysis. HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING, 2006, 21 6: 459–68.