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Topic: MULTILEVEL MODELING USING DHS SURVEYS: APPROXIMATE LEVEL-WEIGHTS for Kenya DHS Surveys

Re: MULTILEVEL MODELING USING DHS SURVEYS: APPROXIMATE LEVEL-WEIGHTS for Kenya DHS Surveys [message #29124 is a reply to message #29116]

Fri, 26 April 2024 07:02

Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3043
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

Following is a response from Senior DHS Staff member, Tom Pullum:

Unfortunately, we cannot provide much assistance with this topic. I recommend that you first identify the specific appendix tables in the Zimbabwe final report that were used in MR27. The Kenya 2022 survey was a DHS-8 survey and followed a slightly different tabulation plan, but I hope you can find the appendix tables in the Kenya report that correspond with the tables in the Zimbabwe report. I haven't checked, but the table titles should be very similar even if the table numbers have changed.

Ideally, DHS would routinely calculate the level weights when each survey is completed, and make them available in a small cluster-level file. We have recommended this, but without success. If other users have calculated the level-weights for other surveys, perhaps they could let us know and share them on the forum?

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Topic: HR Files

Re: HR Files [message #29128 is a reply to message #29117]

Fri, 26 April 2024 11:09

Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3043
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

Following is a response from Senior DHS Staff Member, Tom Pullum:

If I correctly understand your question, your goal is to develop estimates of the outcomes / indicators for regions of each country. ArcGIS is not a good program for this purpose. Stata or SPSS or R are better for developing such estimates (my preference is Stata). But most, if not all, of the estimates you want are available at www.statcompiler.com. In the data files, region is v024 or hv024.

ArcGIS is a mapping package, and at first I thought your goal was to construct maps. You can actually produce maps with Stata, if you have the admin 1 shape files for a country. There are probably other ways to do this without getting into ArcGIS. Hope this helps.

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