Household Possessions Indices as Wealth Measures: A Validity Evaluation

Traynor, Anne; Raykov, Tenko

doi:10.1086/671423

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“…Further, the degree to which the models are mis-specified is highly variable across educational systems and scales, and the findings of poor fit did not appear to be concentrated in either OECD or partner countries (OECD, 2014). These findings are in line with Traynor and Raykov (2013), who analyzed PIRLS, PISA, and TIMSS data and found that in Indonesia and Israel the wealth measurements "tend to be imprecisewith between one-third and one-half of the wealth score variability in several of these surveys attributable to measurement error" (p. 681).…”

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Improving the Comparability and Local Usefulness of International Assessments: A Look Back and A Way Forward

Rutkowski

2017

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Over time international large-scale assessments have grown in terms of number of studies, cycles, and participating countries, many of which are a heterogeneous mix of economies, languages, cultures, and geography. This heterogeneity has meaningful consequences for comparably measuring both achievement and non-achievement constructs, such as social and emotional skills. In this paper we propose one way to directly incorporate country-specific differences into the methods used to construct background scales. We use research that demonstrates data quality issues in international assessment and the degree to which these issues can impact inferences. Our proposed solution incorporates innovations that have been developed for achievement measures but have not been applied to background scales. We demonstrate this possible solution with PISA 2012 data.

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confidence: 81%

Improving the Comparability and Local Usefulness of International Assessments: A Look Back and A Way Forward

Rutkowski

2017

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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“…Child and adolescent surveys typically do not include parents as informants, and for children and adolescents, accurate information about parental income might not be accessible. An alternative to income-based measures of family wealth, sometimes referred to as the “assets approach” (Howe et al 2008 ; Sahn and Stifel 2003 ), is to ask the child or their parents directly about the material conditions in the family (Doku et al 2010 ; Traynor and Raykov 2013 ; Wardle et al 2002 ). The assets approach requires children and adolescents to report on family ownership of goods and/or families access to services that are required for an acceptable standard of living.…”

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Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach

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The aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential indicators of affluence. Responses were subject to item screening and test of dimensionality. Bifactor analysis revealed a strong general factor of affluence in all countries, but with additional specific factors in all countries. The specific factors mainly reflected overlapping item content. Item screening was conducted to eliminate items with low discrimination and local dependence, reducing the number of items from sixteen to six: Number of computers, number of cars, own bedroom, holidays abroad, dishwasher, and bathroom. The six-item version was estimated with Samejima's graded response model, and tested for differential item functioning by country. Three of the six items were invariant across countries, thus anchoring the scale to a common metric across countries. The six-item Child Ind Res (2016) 9:771-784

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“…To calculate these, we use the DHS-derived wealth index (Rutstein and Johnson 2004). This is a composite index that accounts for the household possessions of survey respondents, is comparable across countries, and is routinely used in estimating deprivationdriven inequalities as a proxy for income (Filmer and Pritchett 2001;Traynor and Raykov 2013). Using this index allows us to split the households in the sample into different wealth groups.…”

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Is equal access to higher education in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa achievable by 2030?

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Rose

2016

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Higher education is back in the spotlight, with post-2015 sustainable development goals emphasising equality of access. In this paper, we highlight the long distance still to travel to achieve the goal of equal access to higher education for all, with a focus on poorer countries which tend to have lower levels of enrolment in higher education. Analysing Demographic and Health Survey data from 35 low-and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, we show wide wealth inequalities in particular, with few if any of the poorest gaining access to higher education in some countries. We further identify that wealth and gender inequalities interact and tend to be wider in countries where levels of higher education are higher. This implies that expansion in access to higher education may predominantly benefit the rich, unless measures are taken to tackle inequalities. We find that that the rates of increase necessary for the attainment of the equal access goal by 2030 are particularly high. They pose a particularly difficult challenge given the access inequalities present from primary and secondary education in a wide majority of countries in our analysis. We therefore suggest that any measures aimed at attaining the goal need to tackle inequalities in access within a system-wide approach, focusing on the level of education at which inequalities initially manifest, alongside higher education.

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Household Possessions Indices as Wealth Measures: A Validity Evaluation

Cited by 34 publications

References 54 publications

Improving the Comparability and Local Usefulness of International Assessments: A Look Back and A Way Forward

Improving the Comparability and Local Usefulness of International Assessments: A Look Back and A Way Forward

Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach

Is equal access to higher education in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa achievable by 2030?

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