Exploring the potential for a new measure of socioeconomic deprivation status to monitor health inequality

Table 4 Percentage of people in DHS wealth index quintiles by socioeconomic deprivation status

Country	SDS (four subgroups)	Q1 (poorest)	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5 (richest)	Chi2 test (p-value)	Pearson correlation (p-value)¹
Haiti	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	0.0	0.2	9.7	34.3	69.5	< 0.001	-0.736 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	12.2	47.7	66.1	57.3	28.9
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	37.1	41.5	22.1	8.2	1.6
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	50.6	10.9	2.1	0.1	0.0
India	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	1.0	22.5	68.8	90.7	97.4	< 0.001	-0.791 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	48.8	58.7	28.1	8.8	2.5
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	40.7	17.4	3.0	0.5	0.7
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	9.5	1.41	0.1	0.0	0.0
Niger	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	30.1	< 0.001	-0.754 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	0.9	3.0	7.0	10.8	32.1
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	12.3	23.7	35.0	40.7	27.4
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	86.8	73.2	57.9	48.5	10.3
Pakistan	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	4.7	31.1	62.6	82.4	92.8	< 0.001	-0.768 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	22.1	38.1	29.3	15.9	6.9
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	39.8	24.8	7.7	1.8	0.3
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	33.4	6.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
Papua New Guinea	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.7	61.4	< 0.001	-0.754 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	5.1	20.3	40.6	66.4	31.7
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	35.5	43.2	42.4	27.3	6.4
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	59.3	36.4	17.0	4.5	0.5
Tajikistan^a	Non-deprived (< 0.25)	76.7	85.3	88.2	89.5	94.0	< 0.001	-0.405 (< 0.001)
	Less deprived (0.25-0.5)	21.5	14.1	11.3	10.0	5.9
	Deprived (0.5-0.75)	-	-	-	-	-
	Extremely deprived (≥ 0.75)	-	-	-	-	-

^aIn Tajikistan, there were no individuals who experience more than 75% of the weighted sum of deprivations. Given the sample size of 5, we do furthermore not present estimates for those deprived in at least 50% of the weighted SDS indicators
¹This analysis was conducted using the DHS Wealth Index score, i.e. the first principal component, and the SDS counting vector

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