Such indicator may be obtained from urban people but one must be cautious to make similar assumption for rural people as 70% people of India are still involved in agriculture.
My current study about socio-economic status in rural areas has shown following issues:
1. Most of the rural people can not report their income and expenditure as they are not under salary scheme and do not make any family or agricultural budget.
2. Their income and expenditure in agriculture are highly correlated. The income is not correlated with their non agricultural expenses. This suggests that they are not able to improve their quality of life much like urban people. This is a serious issue for the researchers who are interested to relate socio economic status to the health and educational condition or any psychological phenomena.
3. Researcher can follow different parameters used by NSSO to assess socio-economic status and to test their validity. My recent book on questionnaire development presents socio-economic data analysis of rural people. This book will give you guideline to classify the people in terms of SES score.
With best wishes,
D. Dutta Roy, ISI., Kolkata
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