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Updated BG Prasad’s socio-economic status classification for the year 2025

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a means to describe an individual’s economic and social standing in the community. It indirectly gives a measure of the health condition of the individuals in the family as it determines the accessibility, affordability, acceptability and actual utilization of various health facilities. There are various socio-economic scales developed over time to measure the SES in different settings. BG Prasad’s scale was developed in the year 1961 and is widely used to determine the SES in both the urban and rural areas. It considers only one parameter - monthly per capita income (PCI) of the family- to determine the SES of the family. Yearly update will help in latest SES calculation for reference by researchers and policy makers. In this article we have updated the BG Prasad for the year 2025 taking into consideration the current month consumer price index- industrial worker.