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Socioeconomic status scales - An update

2013; Akash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Sharankumar Holyachi, Arvind Babu Rajendra Santosh,

Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Introduction: There are various criteria based on which society has been divided into different classes. Different ways have been adopted by vari-ous social scientists for determin-ing the social status of individuals or groups. These criteria are occu-pation, wealth, birth, race, religion, education etc. but just one criterion is not sufficient to classify strata. Some of the commonly used socio-economic status (SES) scales are Kuppuswamy, B.G Prasad and Uday Pareek scales. Since these be-ing commonly used SES the pre-sent article intends to provide an update