All of the following are taken into consideration in Kuppuswamy scale EXCEPT:

ANSWER: (C) Living/Housing conditionsREF: Park 20th edition page 601, First handbook of psychological and social instruments by Udai Pareek, T. Venkateswara Rao page 284Kuppuswami scale is widely used to measure the socio-economic status of an individual in urban community. It is based on three variables namelyEducationOccupationIncomeThe modification of Kuppuswami scale meant to determine the socioeconomic status of family based on education and occupation of head of the family and per capital income per month has also been widely used. Recently, Mishra et al have suggested an economic revision of Kuppuswami s scale in order to account for the devaluation of rupee and is proposed to measure the socioeconomic status of the family and is neither based on the individual nor on the head of the family.