Pareek's Scale for assessing Socio-Economic Status

Contains the info on Pareek scale used in cenus for measuring the socio economic status

1. Uday Pareek Scale Group B Socio-economic status and Health

2. Pareek’s scale (Tables 1 and 2) was developed by Uday Pareek for calculating and examine the socio-economic status (SES) for rural population. Uday Pareek and G Trivedi (1964) attempted to examine the SES for the rural or mixed population only. Scale consists of a manual and one information bank This scale does not emphasize the economic aspect and can only be used for rural subjects. The reliability of the scale was found to be very high(r = 0.93). It consists of nine factors – Caste occupation of the HOF education of the HOF level of social participation of the HOF Landholding Housing farm power (animals) material possession type of family.

3. Each of these components are given scores and by summing up all the components the SES can be determined and catagorized ino several classes viz : Upper Upper middle Lower middle Upper lower Lower lower After filling the information and scoring the individuals items, the total score is summed up and then interprete in terms of the class.

4. Scoring criteria

5. Caste

6. Occupation

7. Education

8. Social participation

9. Landholding

10. Housing

11. Farm power

12. Material possession

13. No. of family members

14. Scores ranges from a maximum value of 49 to minimum value of 3 The total score is graded into five SES categories:

15. Advantages Income may be concealed and it may not be easy to determine The scale is very easy to sue To determine the level of poverty, these criteria can be adopted to classify the family as below poverty line (BPL) or above poverty line (APL).

16. Disadvantages The use is only restricted to rural population Contains too many components that are difficult to access.

17. Bibliography Suryakantha Community medicine K Park’s PSM b ing.com/images