Clustering South African households based on their asset status using latent variable models
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DOI10.1214/14-AOAS726zbMATH Open1454.62503arXiv1401.5343OpenAlexW2112521114WikidataQ30605177 ScholiaQ30605177MaRDI QIDQ400600FDOQ400600
Authors: Damien McParland, Tyler H. Mccormick, Samuel J. Clark, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Mark A. Collinson, Isobel Claire Gormley 
Publication date: 22 August 2014
Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System has since 2001 conducted a biannual household asset survey in order to quantify household socio-economic status (SES) in a rural population living in northeast South Africa. The survey contains binary, ordinal and nominal items. In the absence of income or expenditure data, the SES landscape in the study population is explored and described by clustering the households into homogeneous groups based on their asset status. A model-based approach to clustering the Agincourt households, based on latent variable models, is proposed. In the case of modeling binary or ordinal items, item response theory models are employed. For nominal survey items, a factor analysis model, similar in nature to a multinomial probit model, is used. Both model types have an underlying latent variable structure - this similarity is exploited and the models are combined to produce a hybrid model capable of handling mixed data types. Further, a mixture of the hybrid models is considered to provide clustering capabilities within the context of mixed binary, ordinal and nominal response data. The proposed model is termed a mixture of factor analyzers for mixed data (MFA-MD). The MFA-MD model is applied to the survey data to cluster the Agincourt households into homogeneous groups. The model is estimated within the Bayesian paradigm, using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. Intuitive groupings result, providing insight to the different socio-economic strata within the Agincourt region.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5343
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