LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Year : 2012  |  Volume : 56  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 103-104

Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale: Updating income ranges for the year 2012

Neeta Kumar¹, Neeru Gupta², Jugal Kishore^3
1 Scientist C, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
² Scientist E, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
³ Professor, PSM Department, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

Correspondence Address:
Neeta Kumar
Scientist C, Division of RHN, ICMR Hqrs, Ansari nagar, New Delhi
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/0019-557X.96988

Table 1: Original Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic status scale Click here to view

Table 2: Year-wise reference indices Click here to view

Table 3: Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic scale: update of income range Click here to view

References

1.	Kuppuswamy B. Manual of socioeconomic status scale (urban). Delhi: Manasayan; 1981.
2.	Mishra D, Singh HP. Kuppuswamy's scocioeconomic status scale-A revision. Indian J Pediatr 2003;70:273-4.   [PUBMED]
3.	Kumar N, Shekhar C, Kumar P, Kundu AS. Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic status scale-Updating for 2007. Indian J Pediatr 2007;74:1131-2.   [PUBMED]

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