WHAT IT SHOWS
What you can learn from it
A PCA-based household asset index used to place households into wealth quintile groups for survey analysis.
EXPLORE SOURCE · EXPLORE ONLY
Malawi
World Bank IHPS 2019 wealth-quintile replication file
This source is useful enough to browse, but it is not used to calculate a personal WORTH99 percentile. The limitation is shown explicitly below instead of hiding the source.
Period2019
ReferenceHousehold panel / derived index
Data typeAsset-index wealth ranking
UseHigh-confidence asset-index context
WHY NO PERSONAL RANK?
Why it stays Explore-only
The wealth index is a relative PCA score, not monetary assets minus liabilities. Quintile membership therefore cannot be converted into WORTH99 net-worth thresholds.
DATA USE
Confidence & freshness
High-confidence asset-index context · Historical
RIGHTS / SOURCE NOTE
How WORTH99 uses it
Replication code/package licensing does not automatically relicense embedded survey data. Explore identifies the index for context without presenting PCA groups as monetary net worth.
PRODUCT BOUNDARY
Browseable does not mean rankable.
WORTH99 keeps useful wealth evidence visible even when the source cannot support a defensible personal percentile. This page does not invent missing assets, liabilities, household distributions or percentile thresholds.