Table 2.

OLS regression of change in monthly household expenditures in CFA francs by shift in wealth index quintile for both PCA and polychoric PCA wealth indices

	PCA wealth index	Polychoric PCA wealth index
Decrease of 2	8,634	N/A
	(− 101,449 to 118,718)
Decrease of 1	− 634.9	− 6694
	(− 6133 to 4863)	(− 14,000 to 611.2)
No change	omitted	omitted
Increase of 1	17,473**	− 4616
	(10,931 to 24,015)	(− 12,027 to 2795)
Increase of 2	55,923**	11,939
	(43,072 to 68,773)	(− 43,965 to 67,843)
Increase of 3	22,793	N/A
	(− 22,202 to 67,788)

* denotes statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level

** denotes statistical significance at the p <0.01 level