The multiple meanings of prosperity and poverty: a cross-site comparison from Tanzania

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Table 1. Simplified and minimised asset indices.

Bangladesh	Benin	Tanzania
Does your household have:	Does your household have:	Does your household have:
– electricity,	– electricity,	– a television?
– a TV,	– a TV,	– a radio?
– an electric fan,	– a VCR or DVD player?	– an iron?
– an almirah/wardrobe,	What is the main material used in your house walls?	What is the main material of the floor of your dwelling?
– a refrigerator	What is the main fuel you use for cooking?	What is the main material of the exterior walls of your dwelling?
What is the main material used in your house walls?	What type of toilet do members of your household use?	What is the main material of the roof of your dwelling?
What is the main material used for your house floor?		What type of fuel does your household mainly use for cooking?
Does any member of this household have a bank account?		What is the main source of energy for lighting in the household?
		Does any member of this household have a bank account?

Source: (Chakraborty et al. 2016, 152) and http://www.equitytool.org/tanzania/ accessed 16th February 2018.

Table 2. The study sites covered in this paper.

Region	District	Villages	Selected characteristics
Arusha	Meru	2	Mountainous, limited land availability, good infrastructure, close to towns
Dodoma	Chemba	2	Remoter areas, good land availability, poor infrastructure
Iringa	Iringa Rural Kilolo	2 3	Reasonably good infrastructure, mid-altitude plains, close to towns
Mbeya	Mbeya Rural	2	mountainous regions, limited land availability, infrastructure variable
Morogoro	Mvomero	4	Some lowland sites with good infrastructure and rainfall; some mountainous sites with limited land availability and poor soils
Rukwa	Sumbawanga Rural	1	Remoter areas, good land availability, poor infrastructure
Shinyanga	Kishapu	1	Peri-urban location; poor infrastructure

Table 3. Gender Difference in the Salience of Attributes of Wealth.

Gender Group	Things mentioned by men not women/ women not men	Things mentioned by most men and a few women/ most women and a few men	Things mentioned in common by both men and women
Women	Painted house TV Donkeys Flowers in the garden Gated compound Forward planning Life without problems Access to a vet	Private health care Private education Solar Electricity Water Enough food Children educated to University Ploughing with oxen Ability to work Selling milk Milling machine Ability to farm land Renting extra land Growing potatoes/tomatoes	A good house Electricity Metal roof Glass windows Modern toilet Burned brick walls Plastered walls Using paid labour Farm size Improved livestock varieties Ploughed fields Modern inputs in farms Commercial tree crops External crop market Business owner Property investments Cows Sheep/goats Fowl Pigs Car Tractor Motorbike Eat three times per day Educate children to form IV + Sofa set Social networks Salaried job Fewer children
Men	Bank account Livestock well cared for Land well managed	We could not populate this cell with any attributes.

Chakraborty, Nirali M., Kenzo Fry, Rasika Behl, and Kim Longfield. 2016. “Simplified Asset Indices to Measure Wealth and Equity in Health Programs: A Reliability and Validity Analysis Using Survey Data From 16 Countries.” Global Health: Science and Practice 4 (1): 141–154.

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