MICS

MICS 2005

Mongolia, 2005
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Reference ID
MNG-NSO-MICS2005-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia
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MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY
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Oct 16, 2025
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Wealth index quintiles (wlthind5)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 3568
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 5
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Recoded variable:
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 21
0.6%
1 Poorest 813
22.8%
2 Second 842
23.6%
3 Middle 686
19.2%
4 Fourth 579
16.2%
5 Richest 627
17.6%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Universe
Households
Source of information
Variable constructed for analysis

Imputation and derivation

Imputation
The wealth index is calculated by the program wealth.sps, which creates a data file wealth.sav that contains identification variables, a variable containing each household wealth score and a variable containing each household's wealth index. The program wealth.sps first produces frequencies of all household variables concerned with wealth or assets. It then recodes variables describing household and individual assets into dichotomous variables. The program then uses factor analysis (specifically principal components analysis) to calculate a wealth score for each household. Finally, it uses the wealth score to create household wealth quintiles (that is, the wealth index) and then saves them in an SPSS data file. Once the wealth index has been calculated, executing the program wealth_merge.sps will add it to the analysis files.

All the above mentioned SPSS files can be found in the data processing folder under technical information.
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