Senior Resident, Department of Community Medicine, GMC Baramulla, Baramulla, India.
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, GMC Baramulla, Baramulla, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2021 Oct-Dec;65(4):418-421. doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1108_21.
One of the factors that affect the health of the people is the socioeconomic class. One of the widely used scales for measuring socioeconomic status is the Kuppuswamy scale originally developed in 1976. It must be updated with time as it takes family income into account. The revision of income can be done by using Consumer price index for industrial workers. Conversion factors were given by earlier researchers whenever the base year changed to update the scale. Since the base year has now been changed to 2016, we are giving conversion factor to be multiplied with income categories of 2001 to get the updated scale. We have shown how to calculate the conversion factors and when they are required. We have deducted a conversion factor of 3.26 which is to be multiplied with income categories of 2001 to get the updated scale for February 2021.
影响人们健康的因素之一是社会经济阶层。用于衡量社会经济地位的广泛使用的标准之一是库普斯瓦米量表，该量表最初于 1976 年开发。由于它考虑了家庭收入，因此必须随着时间的推移进行更新。可以使用工业工人消费物价指数来更新收入。在将基年更改为更新量表时，早期研究人员给出了转换系数。由于现在已经将基年更改为 2016 年，因此我们给出了转换系数，将其乘以 2001 年的收入类别，即可获得更新的量表。我们展示了如何计算转换系数以及何时需要它们。我们扣除了 3.26 的转换系数，该系数乘以 2001 年的收入类别，即可得到 2021 年 2 月的更新量表。
