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Year : 2013  |  Volume : 38  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 185-186

Modified kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale: social researcher should include updated income criteria, 2012

Mohan Bairwa¹, Meena Rajput², Sandeep Sachdeva^2
1 Department of Community Medicine, UCMS and GTB Hospital, Delhi, India
² Department of Community Medicine, Pt B D Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak, India

Correspondence Address:
Mohan Bairwa
Department of Community Medicine, UCMS and GTB Hospital, Delhi
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.116358

Table 1: Kuppuswamy socioeconomic scale (Urban, 1976)(1) Click here to view

• Price index for 1982 by 1960 base = 490
• Price index for 1982 by 1982 base = 100
• Price index for 1976 by 1960 base = 296
• Price index for 1976 by 1982 base = 296 χ 490/100 = 60.408.

• Price index by old base (1982) for 1998 = 405
• Price index for 2001 by new base (2001) = 100
• Price index by new base (2001) for 1998 = 405 χ 458/100 = 88.428
• Price index by new base (2001) for 2012 = 208.

Table 2: Family income (Rs.) per month in the original and modified Kuppuswamy scale# Click here to view

Acknowledgments

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