Home resources as a measure of socio-economic status in Ghana

Large-scale Assessments in Education

An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal

Table 3 Latent class probabilities for the three SES classes

Items	Class 1 High-SES 24.3%	Class 2 Middle-SES 45.4%	Class 3 Low-SES 30.3%
Computer
Yes	0.686	0.074	0.096
No	0.314	0.926	0.904
Study desk
Yes	0.744	0.626	0.157
No	0.256	0.374	0.843
Books
Yes	0.865	0.792	0.359
No	0.135	0.208	0.641
Own room
Yes	0.478	0.364	0.149
No	0.522	0.636	0.851
Internet
Yes	0.312	0.065	0.014
No	0.688	0.935	0.986
Calculator
Yes	0.795	0.456	0.059
No	0.205	0.544	0.941
Dictionary
Yes	0.880	0.528	0.097
No	0.120	0.472	0.903
Electricity
Yes	0.943	0.709	0.445
No	0.057	0.291	0.555
Car/motor/bicycle
Yes	0.662	0.375	0.091
No	0.338	0.625	0.909
Tap water
Yes	0.704	0.375	0.109
No	0.296	0.625	0.891
Chalkboard
Yes	0.564	0.347	0.064
No	0.436	0.653	0.936