Analysis informing decision | Item dropped (item number)* | Rationale |
Descriptive statistics | Loan water (1.24) | Not salient |
Too sick or weak (1.30) | Not salient | |
Treat water (1.20) | Not salient | |
Take medications (1.29) | Too rare | |
Crops (1.5, 2.6) | Not universal | |
Livestock (1.6, 2.7) | Not universal | |
Caring for children (1.10) | Not universal | |
Miss school (1.12, 2.11) | Not universal | |
Wash face and hands of children (1.16, 2.15) | Not universal | |
Worry about safety of person (1.2, 2.4) | Not universal | |
Lacked money (1.8, 2.9) | Not universal | |
Nowhere to buy (1.9, 2.10) | Not universal | |
Earning money (1.7, 2.8) | Not universal | |
Item correlations (EFA) | Quarrel - neighbours (1.25, 2.22) | Poor item correlation coefficients |
Quarrel - household (1.26, 2.23) | Poor item correlation coefficients | |
Taste bad (1.21, 2.19) | Poor item correlation coefficients | |
Drank unsafe (1.22, 2.20) | Poor item correlation coefficients | |
Borrow (1.23, 2.21) | Poor item correlation coefficients | |
Moving (1.3, 2.28) | Poor item correlation coefficients | |
Item correlations (Rasch) | Attend social events (1.19, 2.18) | Redundant (highly correlated with “day interrupted”) and poor phrasing |
Chores (1.11) | Redundant (highly correlated with “wash clothes”) and poor phrasing | |
Preferred (2.2) | Redundant (highly correlated with “worry about enough”) and poor phrasing |
*Complete item numbering in online supplementary table 1.