Development of an international scale of socio-economic position based on household assets

Table 3 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (r_s) for correlations between Mokken scale scores and the stated variables

	Annaba (Algeria)	Fes (Morocco)	Ife (Nigeria)	Penang (Malaysia)	Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)	Sousse (Tunisia)	Srinagar (India)	Tirana (Albania)
Highest level of schooling^a
Respondent	0.251*	0.388*	0.411*	0.176*	0.114*	0.301*	0.246*	0.524*
Father	0.161*	0.149*	0.217*	0.147*	0.056	0.149*	0.220*	0.441*
Mother	0.068*	0.066*	0.182*	0.184*	–0.014	0.190*	–	0.405*
Height	0.023	0.038	0.139*	0.123*	0.073	0.050	0.212*	0.197*
BMI	0.120*	0.141*	0.247*	–0.043	–0.062	0.091*	0.153*	0.001
Frequency of going hungry^b	–0.338*	–0.389*	–0.204*	–0.128*	–0.070	–0.312*	–0.152*	–0.111*
Number of people per room in house^c	–0.187*	–0.385*	–0.019	–0.054	–0.131*	–0.136*	–0.414*	–0.117*

* Denotes a statistically significant correlation (p < 0.05)
^aHighest level of schooling completed, categorised as 0 = none, 1 = primary, 2 = middle, 3 = high, 4 = college/technical, 5 = university. None of the mothers had been educated in Srinagar
^bSelf reported frequency of someone in the household going hungry for lack of money, categorised as 0 = never, 1 = occasionally, 2 = certain times of year, 3 = most months, 4 = most weeks, 5 = most days
^cNumber of people per room = number of people living in the house/number of rooms in the house [excluding kitchen and bathroom(s)]

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