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Component items (X) of FAS versions used in each HBSC Survey.

Currie C, Alemán Díaz AY, Bosáková L, de Looze M. The international Family Affluence Scale (FAS): Charting 25 years of indicator development, evidence produced, and policy impact on adolescent health inequalities. SSM Popul Health. 2023 Dec 30;25:101599. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101599. 

FAS-III

FAS is a validated, six-item scale used to assess adolescents’ socioeconomic status through information on family ownership (number of computers owned, whether the family has a car and a dishwasher, whether the adolescent reports having their own bedroom, number of bathrooms in the house, and holidays taken in the past year) . In concurrence with other published studies, the FAS score was categorized as low (≤6), medium (7–9), and high (≥10) 

1. Hartley, J.E.K.; Levin, K.; Currie, C. A New Version of the HBSC Family Affluence Scale—FAS III: Scottish Qualitative Findings from the International FAS Development Study. Child Indic. Res. 2016, 9, 233–245. 

2. Boyce, W.; Torsheim, T.; Currie, C.; Zambon, A. The Family Affluence Scale as a Measure of National Wealth: Validation of an Adolescent Self-Report Measure. Soc. Indic. Res. 2006, 78, 473–487. 

3. Torsheim, T.; Cavallo, F.; Levin, K.A.; Schnohr, C.; Mazur, J.; Niclasen, B.; Currie, C.; The FAS Development Study Group. Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: A Latent Variable Approach. Child Indic. Res. 2016, 9, 771–784. 

FAS-II

FAS is a validated, four-item scale used to assess adolescents’ socioeconomic status through information on family ownership (number of computers owned, whether the family has a car, whether the adolescent reports having their own bedroom, and holidays taken in the past year) . In concurrence with other published studies, the FAS score was categorized as low (≤), medium (), and high (≥) .

FAS-I