MODIFIED KUPPUSWAMY SCALE UPDATED FOR YEAR 2018

Abstract

Background: Socio-economic status (SES) could be a live of economic and social science conditions of an individual's work expertise and of a personality's or family's economic and social position in reference to different community members. Sometimes financial gain, education, and occupation are taken into consideration to work out socioeconomic status. In most of the scientific studies like hospital and community-based studies, assessment of socioeconomic status of an individual/family is a very important pre-requisite as several diseases are directly or indirectly related to socioeconomic status. Socio-economic scales are captivated with analysis of financial gain and need to be updated with dynamical consumer index. the objective of the study was to revise the socio-economic scales of Kuppuswamy, taking into consideration the revision in consumer index (industrial workers). Methods: The socio-economic scales were revised on the idea of updated CPI (IW) for the month of January 2018, using an internet tool. Results: The updated Kuppuswamy scales for the year 2018 were obtained using revised CPI (IW) and an easy online tool. Conclusions: we tend to concluded that regular change of Kuppuswamy’s socioeconomic scale is very important to keep up the validity of this scale because the scale depends on the general financial gain of the family/individual and it's liable to amendment with revision consumer index.

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