The use of total assets as a proxy for socioeconomic status in northern Vietnam

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 996-1004

  Vu, Lan ^a   Tran, Bich ^a   Le, Anh ^a  

^a HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

indicator of socioeconomic status; low birth weight; principal component analysis; total assets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; VALIDATION STUDY; VIET NAM;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; VIETNAM;

EID: 82955241275     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539510361638     Document Type: Article

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