Intra-cluster correlations in socio-demographic variables and their implications: An analysis based on large-scale surveys in India

• Main Authors: Laxmi Kant Dwivedi (Author), Bidhubhusan Mahaptra (Author), Anjali Bansal (Author), Jitendra Gupta (Author), Abhishek Singh (Author), T.K. Roy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Individuals who share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics also share similar health outcomes. Consequently, they have a propensity to cluster together, which results in positive intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) in their socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics. In...