Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

Table 1 Asset items included in the indices (Indonesia)

	WB index	Index 1	Index 2	Index 3
electricity	X	X	X
radio or tape recorder	X	X	X	X
television	X	X	X	X
refrigerator	X	X	X	X
bicycle	X	X	X	X
motorcycle or motorboat	X	X	X	X
car	X	X	X	X
gas stove	X	X	X	X
kerosene stove	X	X	X	X
electric stove	X	X	X	X
public toilet	X
private toilet	X
bush, field as latrine	X
other latrine	X
drinking water piped in residence	X
drinking water piped into yard	X
drinking river, canal, surface water	X
drinking from public faucet (piped)	X
drinking from well with pump	X
drinking rainwater	X
other drinking water	X
drinking from protected well	X
drinking from unprotected well	X
dirt, sand, dung floor	X	X
wood, plank floor	X	X
ceramic, marble floor	X	X
brick floor	X	X
bamboo floor	X	X
cement, ceramic tile floor	X	X
other floor	X	X
tile roof	X	X
concrete roof	X	X
asbestos or zinc roof	X	X
wooden roof	X	X
leaves roof	X	X
other roof	X	X
wall of bamboo or wood planks	X	X
other wall	X	X
bamboo wall	X	X
clay brick wall	X	X

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