Table 5 - Appendix Summary of variables used in the computation homestead socio-economic status asset index from the first principal component
Homestead wealth asset index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Bondo | Greater Kisii | Kwale | Makueni |
Ownership of livestock | ||||
1. Number of cows | 0.03643 | 0.00758 | 0.00102 | 0.05416 |
2. Number of shoats | 0.02725 | 0.00068 | 0.00039 | 0.01281 |
3. Number of donkeys | 0.06534 | 0.02683 | -0.02545 | 0.238 |
4. Number of chickens | 0.01076 | 0.00335 | 0.00152 | 0.01937 |
5. Number of ducks | 0.03485 | 0.06381 | 0.01872 | 0.10848 |
Homestead head (HH) education level | ||||
6. No education | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.02969 |
7. Primary incomplete | 0.15034 | 0.07051 | 0.26061 | 0 |
8. Primary complete | 0.25688 | 0.1982 | 0.30905 | 0.08034 |
9. Secondary incomplete | 0.52292 | 0.29959 | 0.75045 | 0.26142 |
10. Secondary complete | 0.52199 | 0.4678 | 0.59016 | 0.4856 |
11. More than secondary | 0.80864 | 0.99121 | 1.00338 | 0.82009 |
12. Vocational | 0.95369 | 0.5123 | 0.26627 | 0.04142 |
HH main source of income | ||||
13. Works for pay | 0.29333 | 0.90787 | 0.5955 | 0.63684 |
14. Receives income from spouse/other members | 0 | 0.89863 | 0.51623 | 0.69438 |
15. Unpaid on family business/farm | -0.08096 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
16. Unemployed | -0.0818 | 0.21042 | 0.49894 | 0.41075 |
17. Economically inactive | NA | NA | 0.41792 | -0.0899 |
Housing quality | ||||
18. Persons per room | -0.03557 | -0.05222 | -0.05609 | -0.13932 |
19. Owns land | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
20. Pays rent | 0.45241 | 3.08815 | 0.41014 | 0.30171 |
21. No rent with owners consent | 0.00688 | 1.50068 | 0.13849 | -0.39251 |
22. Squatters | 0.12971 | 0.0889 | -0.65033 | |
23. Owns bicycle | 0.32374 | 0.1252 | 0.10902 | 0.14899 |
24. Owns motorcycle | 0.97494 | 1.05757 | 0.24656 | 0.94915 |
25. Owns car or truck | 0.71466 | 0.80907 | 1.23296 | 0.76588 |
26. Owns radio | 0.28078 | 0.23943 | 0.19993 | 0.29401 |
27. Owns TV | 0.80305 | 0.45529 | 1.03836 | 0.7559 |
28. Owns video | 1.10786 | 1.26776 | 1.70521 | 1.10841 |
29. Owns refrigerator | 1.51161 | 1.62935 | 2.04028 | 1.2577 |
30. Uses electricity | 1.02303 | 1.76088 | 1.44804 | NA |
31. Uses solar power | 1.12061 | 0.45853 | 1.09095 | 0.96362 |
32. Uses flush toilets | 1.37463 | 1.28983 | 1.42158 | 1.04173 |
33. Uses pit latrines | 0.43992 | 0.19288 | 0.41397 | 0.50787 |
34. Owns a phone | 0.83599 | 0.48605 | 0.77271 | 0.67088 |
35. House has stone walls | 1.60088 | 0 | 0.8332 | 0 |
36. House has clay walls | 0 | -1.61829 | -0.63197 | -1.20917 |
37. House has other type wall | 1.15311 | NA | -0.0602 | -0.34895 |
38. House has stone floor | 1.53363 | 1.62473 | 1.80454 | 1.28434 |
39. House has earth floor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
40. House has other type of floor | 0.89276 | 0.81848 | 1.1128 | 0.82777 |
41. House has tiled roof | 1.10627 | 0.64139 | 1.01052 | -0.07224 |
42. House has iron sheets roof | 0.87779 | 0 | 1.10361 | 0 |
43. House has grass roof | 0 | -0.60852 | 0 | -1.24814 |
44. Uses electricity, gas or kerosene | 0.50503 | 1.89105 | 2.67614 | 0 |
45. Uses charcoal | 1.0706 | 2.80889 | 3.17585 | 0.40986 |
46. Uses wood | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.05246 |