Table 1.
Asset quintiles and quartiles generated from scores of the first principal component
| Socio-economic status | Zimbabwe 1999 | Zambia 2001/2 | Zambia 1996 | Uganda 2000/1 | Uganda 1995/6 | Tanzania 1999 | Tanzania 1996 | Nigeria 2003 |
| 1st/poorest | 624 (24%) | 1826 (34%) | 624 (11%) | 1026 (20%) | 993 (22%) | 455 (20%) | 1769 (34%) | 918 (22%) |
| 2nd | 607 (23%) | 1690 (31%) | 974 (19%) | 883 (20%) | 469 (20%) | 688 (16%) | ||
| 3rd | 286 (11%) | 1547 (29%) | 687 (13%) | 1248 (25%) | 709 (16%) | 460 (20%) | 1421 (28%) | 1003 (23%) |
| 4th | 655 (25%) | 936 (17%) | 1503 (28%) | 915 (18%) | 1026 (23%) | 474 (20%) | 850 (17%) | 710 (17%) |
| 5th/wealthy | 457 (17%) | 1092 (20%) | 949 (17%) | 938 (18%) | 861 (19%) | 474 (20%) | 1078 (21%) | 917 (22%) |
| Total | 2629 | 5401 | 5453 | 5101 | 4772 | 2332 | 5118 | 4236 |
| Nigeria 1999 | Namibia 2000 | Malawi 2000 | Kenya 2003 | Kenya 1998 | Ghana 2003 | Ghana 1998 | Cameroon 1998 | |
| 1st/poorest | 201 (15%) | 586 (20%) | 2187 (24%) | 920 (20%) | 573 (20%) | 457 (15%) | 528 (20%) | 324 (20%) |
| 2nd | 283 (20%) | 575 (20%) | 1095 (12%) | 1258 (27%) | 553 (19%) | 852 (28%) | 798 (30%) | 361 (21%) |
| 3rd | 244 (17%) | 473 (16%) | 1605 (18%) | 899 (19%) | 644 (23%) | 590 (19%) | 190 (08%) | 321 (19%) |
| 4th | 316 (23%) | 678 (24%) | 2307 (25%) | 764 (16%) | 598 (21%) | 590 (19%) | 621 (24%) | 328 (20%) |
| 5th/wealthy | 356 (25%) | 577 (20%) | 1932 (21%) | 848 (18%) | 496 (17%) | 597 (19%) | 482 (18%) | 329 (20%) |
| Total | 1400 | 2889 | 9126 | 4689 | 2864 | 3086 | 2619 | 1663 |