A new version of the HBSC Family Affluence Scale - FAS III:Scottish qualitative findings from the international FAS Development Study

• Published in: Child Indicators Research
• Main Authors: Hartley, Jane E. K., Levin, Kate, Currie, Candace
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Health inequalities; Family affluence scale; Health behaviours; Qualitative research; Validation; Adolescents; Health indicators; Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC); Canada; Currie; Greenland; Norway
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publications/e8f42b28-63de-46a5-809e-2816f0acb1a2; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-015-9325-3; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/8353/1/Currie_FamilyAffluenceScale_CIR_CC.pdf

A critical review of the Family Affluence Scale (FAS) concluded that FAS II was no longer discriminatory within very rich or very poor countries, where a very high or a very low proportion of children were categorised as high FAS or low FAS respectively (Currie et al. 2008). The review concluded tha...