TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring material wealth in low-income settings
T2 - A conceptual and how-to guide
AU - Kaiser, Bonnie N.
AU - Hruschka, Daniel
AU - Hadley, Craig
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Although wealth is consistently found to be an important predictor of health and well-being, there remains debate as to the best way to conceptualize and operationalize wealth. In this article, we focus on the measurement of economic resources, which is one among many forms of wealth. We provide an overview of the process of measuring material wealth, including theoretical and conceptual considerations, a how-to guide based on the most common approach to measurement, and a review of important theoretical and empirical questions that remain to be resolved. Throughout, we emphasize considerations particular to the settings in which anthropologists work, and we include variations on common approaches to measuring material wealth that might be better suited to anthropologists' theoretical questions, methodological approaches, and fieldwork settings.
AB - Although wealth is consistently found to be an important predictor of health and well-being, there remains debate as to the best way to conceptualize and operationalize wealth. In this article, we focus on the measurement of economic resources, which is one among many forms of wealth. We provide an overview of the process of measuring material wealth, including theoretical and conceptual considerations, a how-to guide based on the most common approach to measurement, and a review of important theoretical and empirical questions that remain to be resolved. Throughout, we emphasize considerations particular to the settings in which anthropologists work, and we include variations on common approaches to measuring material wealth that might be better suited to anthropologists' theoretical questions, methodological approaches, and fieldwork settings.
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U2 - 10.1002/ajhb.22987
DO - 10.1002/ajhb.22987
M3 - Article
C2 - 28236640
AN - SCOPUS:85013837242
SN - 1042-0533
VL - 29
JO - American Journal of Human Biology
JF - American Journal of Human Biology
IS - 4
M1 - e22987
ER -