Review Article
Year : 2022 | Volume : 10 | Issue : 1 | Page : 1 -6
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SCALE-MODIFIED KUPPUSWAMY SCALE FOR THE YEAR 2022
Gunjan Kumar1, Payal Dash 2, Jayeshmit Patnaik3, Gitanjali Pany41
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed-to-be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha2 Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed-to-be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha3 Critical Care Medicine, Care Hospital Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 4 Department of Home Science, D.R.Nayapalli College, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Address for correspondence
Dr. Payal Dash, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed-to-be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
E-mail address-drpayaldash@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Socioeconomic status is one of the most essential indicators to evaluate the health status and nutritional status of a family. Many composite indexes have been proposed. Few international scales are the Hollingshead scale, Nakao and Treas scale, Blishen, Carroll, and Moore scale, In India, the scales can be categorized into those scales applicable in rural, urban, or both. The various scales are the Rahudkar scale, B. G Prasad scale, Udai Parikh scale, Jalota scale, Kuppuswamy scale, Gaur classification, and Bhardwaj scale for children, SC Tiwari and Amrish Kumar and Agarwal scale. Updated modified Kuppuswamyscales is the most common and widely socioeconomic status scale in India in urban settings. But due to the rapidly growing economic rate, the available scales have been ineffective. Therefore, in this review article, the Kuppuswamyscale has been updated for the year 2022.
KEYWORDS-Social Class, Family, Income, Education, Occupations
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Nil
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS:
All the authors declare that there was no conflict of interest in the present study
How to cite this article:
Gunjan Kumar, Dash, P., Jayeshmit Patnaik, & Gitanjali Pany. (2022). SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SCALE-MODIFIED KUPPUSWAMY SCALE FOR THE YEAR 2022. International Journal of Community Dentistry, 10(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.56501/intjcommunitydent.v10i1.26
Received: 26-03-22; Accepted: 28-04-22; Web Published: 10-06-2022
