Table 2.
Evaluation of the social and financial standing.
Item Gender | Score Male | Female | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Occupation of Father (Double) | 25 | 25 | High professional & managerial jobs as doctors, engineers, professors, large employers, directors of business, land owners |
17 | 17 | Lower professionals, skilled and semiskilled workers as school, teacher, clerical workers, owners of small business, military men, policemen. | |
9 | 9 | Unskilled workers as laborers, farmers casual workers, unemployed and retired. | |
Level of Edu. (Double) | 0 | 0 | Illiterate |
5 | 5 | Read & write | |
10 | 10 | Primary graduate | |
15 | 15 | intermediate graduate | |
20 | 20 | Secondary graduate | |
25 | 25 | College graduate | |
Crowding index (Single) | 25 | -2 (up to) | |
17 | - 4 (up to ) | ||
9 | ≥ 5 | ||
Property (Single) | 25 | House is rented, with or without a car and most of the household assets | |
9 | House is shared, with other family, no car and some of the household assets | ||
Crowding index = (No. of family members /No. of rooms); Except bath & kitchen rooms | |||
For double | |||
High: 121–150; Mod.: 90-120; Low: 89 - & less. (Tiwari, 2005) | |||
For single | |||
High: 81–100; Mod.: 60-80; Low: 59- & less. (Al-Naqeeb, 2009) |