Assessing household wealth in health studies in developing countries: a comparison of participatory wealth ranking and survey techniques from rural South Africa
(1) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK;(2) Rural AIDS and Development Action Research Programme, PO Box 2, Acornhoek, 360, South Africa
Abstract:
Background
Accurate tools for assessing household wealth are essential for many health studies in developing countries. Household survey and participatory wealth ranking (PWR) are two approaches to generate data for this purpose.