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Table 2 Percentage of women’s households with selected global network SES index items by site

From: Development of the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research’s socioeconomic status index for use in the network’s sites in low and lower middle-income countries

Item

All sites, (N = 49,536)

Central America

Asia

Africa

Guatemala, (N = 10,287)

Belagavi, India, (N = 7309)

Nagpur, India, (N = 7776)

Pakistan, (N = 4416)

Democratic Republic of Congo, (N = 6998)

Kenya, (N = 7104)

Zambia, (N = 5646)

Housing conditions

 Finished floor material

53.0

75.6

80.5

69.0

49.6

0.4

17.5

66.9

 Flush toilet

26.0

42.7

32.2

59.3

25.7

0.1

0.5

6.5

 LPG/electricity for cooking fuel

27.2

19.3

55.6

74.7

24.7

0.0

1.2

7.9

 Improved source of drinking water

82.6

96.0

92.6

97.7

87.6

39.6

74.4

84.4

 More than one room in home

81.1

95.4

96.4

95.5

58.0

52.7

62.5

92.0

Household assets

 Electricity

60.3

95.6

98.8

98.1

62.7

0.1

8.6

32.1

 Television

53.2

79.3

86.6

90.6

33.3

0.4

11.2

44.3

 Refrigerator

19.2

25.7

22.2

45.9

14.1

0.0

1.4

17.0

 Smart phone

33.7

64.8

54.4

29.5

13.6

0.2

22.1

27.9

 Car

8.3

17.8

12.7

6.5

9.2

0.1

1.2

6.4

 Motorbike

34.1

23.0

68.4

73.4

53.1

4.9

15.5

1.0

 Bicycle

41.4

36.9

45.7

63.4

1.7

43.2

37.1

48.2

  1. No participants at the DRC site had LPG/electricity for cooking fuel