Modified BG Prasads Socio-economic Classification-2018: The need of an update in the present scenario
Downloads
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Indian Journal of Community Health

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Modified BG Prasad socioeconomic scale has been in use for determining the socio-economic status of study subjects in community-based health studies in India since 1961.It is an income-based scale and, therefore, constant update is required to take inflation and depreciation of rupee into account. For industrial workers (IW), the consumer price index (CPI) is used to calculate updated income categories at any given point of time, viz Jan 2018.Abstract
These details of the calculations involved will help many researchers to calculate specific income categories for their ongoing and prospective research work in current calendar year. On the Department of Labour website (www.labourbureaunew.gov.in), state-specific CPI values are also available and should be used to determine more accurate income categories.
The current exercise is a step towards increasing the validity of use of classification with relevance to the current price levels and enabling a real time update for a considerable time in the near future.
The health behavior of an individual or a community is interdependent on their socio-economic status. The concept of socio-economic status is widely used in medical sociology. The social standing of an individual or a family in the society can be measured by it. Therefore, is an important factor affecting the health condition of an individual or a family. (1)
Socio-economic status has been defined as “The position that an individual or family occupies with reference to the prevailing average standards of cultural and material possessions, income and participation in group activity of the community”. The social status may be inherited, but in modern society it is achieved on the basis of occupation, income, type of housing and neighborhood, membership of the certain associations and organizations, material, possessions, etc. (2)
In India, several methods or scales have been developed for classifying different populations based on their socio-economic status, viz. Parikh scale 1964, Shirpurkar scale 1967, Jalota scale 1970, Kulsherestha scale 1972, Srivastava scale 1978, Bharadwaj scale 2001. (3-8)
Modified BG Prasad’s classification that is used for both urban and rural areas. Modified Kuppuswamy classification is used in urban and peri urban areas which considers the education of the head of family, occupation of head of the family and per capita monthly income.(9,10) Another classification for rural areas is Uday Pareekh classification which takes into account following characteristics namely caste
How to Cite
Downloads
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Vivek Kumar Pandey, Pradeep Aggarwal, Rakesh Kakkar, Modified BG Prasad Socio-economic Classification, Update - 2019 , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019)
- Suresh Kumar Sharma, Shiv Mudgal, Prasan Panda, Pratima Gupta, Pradeep Aggarwal, COVID–19: Guidance Outlines on Infection Prevention and Control for Health Care Workers , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 32 No. 1 (2020)
- Dhrubajyoti Debnath, Rakesh Kakkar, Modified BG Prasad Socio-economic Classification, Updated – 2020 , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 32 No. 1 (2020)
- Rakesh Kakkar, Monica Kakkar, S D Kandpal, Sumit Jethani, STUDY OF ANEMIA IN ADOLESCENT SCHOOL GIRLS OF BHOPAL , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 23 No. 1 (2011)
- Sheen Job, Yogesh Bahurupi, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Mahendra Singh, Prasan Kumar Panda, Pradeep Aggarwal, Udai Bhasker Mishra, COVID-19 Sample Collection Kiosk in AIIMS Rishikesh: A safe and efficient model , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 33 No. 1 (2021)
- Tushar Rai, Pradeep Aggarwal, S D Kandpal, KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS, PRACTICE AMONG ADOLESCENTS REGARDING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN URBAN SLUMS , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 23 No. 1 (2011)
- Madhavi Bhargava, S D Kandpal, Pradeep Aggarwal, H Sati, A comparative study of mid-day meal beneficiaries and private school attendees , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 26 No. Supp 2 (2014)
- . Kritika, Rakesh Kakkar, Pradeep Aggarwal, Jayanti Semwal, Quality of Life (QOL) among the Elderly in Rural Dehradun , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 29 No. 1 (2017)
- Pratima Gupta, Aroop Mohanty, Himanshu Narula, Vanya Singh, Deepjyoti Kalita , Saurabh Varshney, Ankita Kabi, Pradeep Aggarwal, Concise Information for the Frontline Health care workers in the era of COVID-19 , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 32 No. 2 (Supp) (2020)
- Arti Gupta, Rakesh Kakkar, Managing a COVID 19 patient at different health care and field level settings , Indian Journal of Community Health: Vol. 32 No. 2 (Supp) (2020)