Assessing Colombia's policy of socio-economic stratification: An intra-city study of self-reported quality of life Chica Olmo, Jorge M. Sánchez Domínguez, María Ángeles Sepúlveda Murillo, Fabio H. public policies self-reported quality of life economic resources social resources multilevel models Medellin De acuerdo con la política de publicación de la revista, facilitamos la versión aceptada del artículo (Accepted Version, pathway b] This paper aims to analyse whether the Colombian government's classification of households into socio-economic strata accurately reflects the level of quality of life of households in Medellin. To this end, logit multilevel models and a novel graphic analysis were used. Our findings suggest that the stratification criteria currently used in Medellin should be revised. The socio-economic strata, which only consider the characteristics of the dwellings, streets and surrounding areas, explain approximately one-tenth of the variability in self-reported quality of life. When other economic and non-economic factors are considered, a different strata ranking for guiding public policies than that used in Medellin was estimated. Neighbourhood safety and personal safety are key drivers of quality of life, whereas higher consumption expenditure is most effective in the most disadvantaged strata. 2024-04-01T10:18:51Z 2024-04-01T10:18:51Z 2020 journal article Chica-Olmo, J., Sánchez, A., & Sepúlveda-Murillo, F.H. (2020). Assessing Colombia's policy of socio-economic stratification: An intra-city study of self-reported quality of life. Cities, 97, 102560. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90267 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102560 eng Cities;97, 102560 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier