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Computation of Socio-Economic Status in the AWI-Gen Project

Hazelhurst, S.; Boua, P. R.; Choudhury, A.; Madala, S.; Sengupta, D.; Tluway, F.; Ramsay, M.

2024-08-22 epidemiology
10.1101/2024.08.22.24312411 medRxiv
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Socio-economic status of participants in many public health, epidemiological, and genome-wide association studies is an important trait of interest. It is often used in these studies as a measure of direct interest or as a covariate. The Africa Wits INDEPTH Partnership for Genomic and Environmental Research (AWI-Gen) explores genomic and environmental factors in non-communicable diseases, particularly cardio-metabolic disease. In Phase I of AWI-Gen, approximately 12,000 participants were recruited at six sites in four African countries. Participants were asked questions about asset ownership. This technical note describes how AWI-Gen computed socio-economic status from the asset register.

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