Social scientists have increasingly used asset‐based wealth scores, like the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth index, to assess economic disparities. However, current indices primarily capture wealth in globalized market economies, thus ignoring other forms of prosperity, such as success in agricultural activities. Using a simple extension to the standard estimation of the DHS wealth index, we describe procedures for estimating an agricultural wealth index (AWI) that complements market‐based wealth indices by capturing household success in agricultural activities. We apply this procedure to household data from 129 DHS surveys from over 40 countries with sufficient land and livestock data to estimate a reliable and consistent AWI. We assess the construct validity of the AWI using benchmarks of growth in both adults and children. This alternative measure of wealth provides new opportunities for understanding the causes and consequences of wealth inequality, and how success along different dimensions of wealth creates different social opportunities and constraints for health and well‐being.

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用于多维财富评估的农业财富指数

社会科学家越来越多地使用基于资产的财富评分（例如人口与健康调查（DHS）财富指数）来评估经济差异。但是，当前的指数主要是在全球化市场经济中获取财富，从而忽略了其他形式的繁荣，例如农业活动的成功。通过简单扩展DHS财富指数的标准估计，我们描述了估计农业财富指数（AWI）的程序，该过程通过捕获家庭在农业活动中的成功来补充基于市场的财富指数。我们将此程序应用于来自40多个国家/地区的129次DHS调查中的家庭数据，这些数据具有足够的土地和牲畜数据，可以估算出可靠且一致的AWI。我们使用成人和儿童的成长基准评估AWI的结构效度。