caa a22 4500 467917051 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-1607-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-1607-6 The Family Affluence Scale as a Measure of National Wealth: Validation of an Adolescent Self-Report Measure [Elektronische Daten] [William Boyce, Torbjorn Torsheim, Candace Currie, Alessio Zambon] One explanation for a lack of consistency in SES-health associations in youth is that parent-based income and occupation measures are inadequate. The Family Affluence Scale (FAS), a four-item measure of family wealth, has been developed in the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study as an alternative measure. The aim of this paper is to examine the criterion and construct validity of the FAS as a measure of national absolute wealth in 35 countries. A general measure of national wealth, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the year 2001, corrected for Purchasing Power Parity, was used as a gold standard. For the composite FAS index, there was a similar strength in country rank order correlation (0.87) as with GDP, and a Kappa agreement coefficient of 0.57, indicating good criterion validity. FAS index associations with national health indicators were systematically higher than the values obtained with GDP. These features suggest that FAS can be used with confidence in aggregate analyses of HBSC data that focus on relationships between SES and adolescent health. Springer, 2006 adolescents nationallicence health behaviour nationallicence socioeconomic measures nationallicence validation study nationallicence Boyce William Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut Torsheim Torbjorn Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut Currie Candace Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut Zambon Alessio Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/3(2006-09-01), 473-487 0303-8300 78:3<473 2006 78 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-1607-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-1607-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boyce William Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Torsheim Torbjorn Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Currie Candace Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zambon Alessio Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, McArthur Hall, 511 Union Street, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/3(2006-09-01), 473-487 0303-8300 78:3<473 2006 78 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer