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10.1101/2024.08.22.24312411
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Computation of Socio-Economic Status in the AWI-Gen Project
Hazelhurst Scott http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0581-149X

Boua Palwende Romuald
Choudhury Ananyo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8225-9531

Madala Siyanda http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6690-4326

Sengupta Dhriti http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6315-7804

Tluway Furahini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3130-3616

Ramsay Michèle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4156-4801

22 8 2024
2024.08.22.24312411https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
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The socio-economic status (SES) of participants in many public health, epidemiological, and genome-wide association studies is an important trait of interest. It is often used in these studies as a measure of direct interest or as a covariate. There are open methodological issues on how SES is computed. The Africa Wits INDEPTH Partnership for Genomic and Environmental Research (AWI-Gen) explores genomic and environmental factors in non-communicable diseases, particularly cardio-metabolic disease. In Phase I of AWI-Gen, approximately 12,000 participants were recruited at six sites in four African countries. Participants were asked questions about asset ownership. This technical note describes how AWI-Gen computed socio-economic status from the asset register.
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