IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/asi/ajoerj/v3y2013i4p433-446id3375.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Reduced Wealth Index for Phone Polls

Author

Listed:
  • Alyaa R ZAHRAN
  • Noha A Abd El-SAMEA
  • Rojan A NAFEA

Abstract

The Reduced Wealth Index (RWI) used at the Public Opinion Poll Center (POPC) of the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) - Egyptian Cabinet, is evaluated for possible change in the importance pattern of the assets used to create the wealth index between the years 2005 and 2008. The predictive power of the reduced set of assets is studied and reasons behind its inability to represent the middle class are investigated. Two approaches of choosing/selecting the reduced set are utilized to improve predictive power of the reduced set of assets. It turns out that Best Reduced Wealth Index (BRWI) is the best reduced index.

Suggested Citation

  • Alyaa R ZAHRAN & Noha A Abd El-SAMEA & Rojan A NAFEA, 2013. "A Reduced Wealth Index for Phone Polls," Asian Journal of Empirical Research, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 3(4), pages 433-446.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ajoerj:v:3:y:2013:i:4:p:433-446:id:3375
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5004/article/view/3375/5393
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:asi:ajoerj:v:3:y:2013:i:4:p:433-446:id:3375. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Robert Allen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5004/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.