Kuppuswamy scale 2022

• Home Currently selected • Current Issue • Previous Issues • For Authors • Submit a Manuscript • Information for Authors • Language Editing Services • Published Ahead-of-Print • Journal Info • About the Journal • Editorial Board • Affiliated Society • Advertising • Subscriptions • Reprints • Rights and Permissions • Contact Us 1 Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India Address for correspondence: Dr. Rabbanie Tariq Wani, Department of Community Medicine, House No. 39, Lane 3 rd, Ibrahim Colony, Hyderpora, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. E-mail: [emailprotected] Received April 06, 2019 Received in revised form April 09, 2019 Accepted April 24, 2019 Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the prime factors influencing the health status of a nation. It is the measure of the social standing of the individual or a family and has a wide impact on an individual/family's health, educational attainment, diet, lifestyle, etc., The per capita income of citizens is a major factor that decides the SES of the population. The affordability and utilization of the health facilities depend on the socioeconomic profile of the population. The periodic changes in the consumer price of goods globally as well as nationally due to inflation warrants that it is mandatory to constantly update the income-based socioeconomic scales so as the assessment is made correctly in practice. We are making an attempt to provide an updated Kuppuswamy and...

This is the most commonly used scale for determining the SES of an urban family. Kuppus- wamy scale was developed for assessing the SES of an urban individual. It took three parameters into account, namely, education, occupation, and income of the individual It was modified to enable SES assessment of a family rather than an individual. The parameters were modified as education and occupation of the HOF and the income of. the whole family, pooled from all the sources . These parameters are defined later in this section. The total score is calculated by adding up all the three scores, namely, education, occupation, and total family income. According to the total score thus calculated, the family is placed in the appropriate socioeconomic class as explained in the following Table. Table: Income of the whole family: Since the time Kuppuswamy scale has been modified to determine the SES of the family rather than an individual, confusion has prevailed whether the income categories are meant to represent the total family income or per capita income. The general consensus is that the original modification might have been for the whole family income, even against the argument that this does not consider the family size and may misclassify large families. We suggest that the student may calculate the socio economic class of the family by applying both i.e. once by using ‘total family income’ and next by using ‘per capita family income’. The resulting categories can be compared and ...

Modified Kuppuswamy socioeconomic scale updated for the year 2020 Original Article Author Details : Sheikh Mohd Saleem * Volume : 7, Issue : 1, Year : 2020 Article Page : 1-3 Suggest article by email Abstract Socioeconomic status (SES) is one among important indicators to evaluate the health status and nutritional status of a family. It is a position attained by any individual within a system of hierarchical social structure. Various attempts have been done in past by eminent scholars and medical scientists to formulate a group of composite indexes to determine SES of an individual or a family living in urban or rural areas. The scales have included various composite indexes to take into account details pertaining to an individual or any family. Among all the available SES, the most widely used and popular scale in our country is “Modified Kuppuswamy SES” which is mostly used for urban areas. In this paper, we have aimed at revising and providing an “Updated Modified Kuppuswamy SES” for the year 2020 .The scale was initially developed by Kuppuswamy in the year 1976 including index parameters like education, occupation, and total income which was further modified in later years to include head of families educational status, occupational status and overall aggregate income of the whole family, pooled from all sources. The Kuppuswamy SES has included 3 parameters and each parameter is further classified into subgroups and scores have been allotted to each subgroup which have...