PRASAD’S SCALE
This is another scale for calculating the social class and is based on the monthly per capita income of the family. It has five classes (as seen in the Table below).
The latest income group can be calculated from the online tool available at: http://prasadscaleupdate.weebly.com/ as explained above after entering the latest CPI-IW.
Therefore the new ranges of per capita income per month for Prasad’s scale based on CPI – IW of January 2019 are as shown in the following Table
Table: Recalculated Ranges of Per Capita Income Per Month for Prasad’s Scale (Jan 2019)
Prasad's scale is can be used for both urban and rural area of the country.
Reference:
- Poornima Tiwari, Shashank Tiwari. Mastering Practicals in Community Medicine, 2nd ed. Lippincott William & Wilkins, New Delhi
- Kuppuswamy's SES Scale for 2019, Online Tool: Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20181124125049/http://scaleupdate.weebly.com:80/real.html ; accessed on 27th March 2019
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PRASAD’S SCALE
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