Development of the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research’s socioeconomic status index for use in the network’s sites in low and lower middle-income countries

Table 3 One-factor confirmatory factor analyses of global network SES index items

Item	All sites	Central America	Asia			Africa
Item	All sites	Guatemala	India (Belagavi)	India (Nagpur)	Pakistan	Democratic Republic of Congo	Kenya	Zambia
Factor loadings
Housing conditions
Finished floor material	0.82	0.73	0.48	0.77	0.85	0.57	0.76	0.77
Flush toilet	0.79	0.69	0.62	0.25	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.88
LPG/electricity for cooking fuel	0.85	0.71	0.67	0.74	0.89		0.86	0.86
Improved source of drinking water	0.67	0.46	0.09	0.28	0.18	0.26	0.26	0.46
More than one room in home	–	–	–	–	–	0.61	–	–
Household assets
Electricity	0.99	0.88	0.63	0.55	0.79	0.76	0.92	0.96
Television	0.95	0.81	0.80	0.77	0.92	0.97	0.92	0.90
Refrigerator	0.85	0.77	0.82	0.88	0.92		0.90	0.96
Smart phone	0.64	0.58	0.73	0.75	0.59	0.59	0.69	0.42
Car	0.55	0.57	0.47	0.57	0.22	0.73	0.73	0.54
Motorbike	0.67	0.45	0.70	0.76	0.35	0.94	0.53	0.31
Bicycle	–	–	–	–	–	0.60	–	–
Model fit indices
CFI	0.99	0.94	0.95	0.96	0.96	0.97	0.98	0.99
TLI	0.99	0.92	0.94	0.95	0.94	0.97	0.98	0.98
RMSEA	0.05	0.07	0.05	0.05	0.09	0.02	0.04	0.06

The items for refrigerator and LPG/electricity for fuel were excluded for the DRC site
CFI comparative fit index, TLI Tucker-Lewis index, and RMSEA root mean square error of approximation

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