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Thu, 06 August 2015 13:20

user_rm
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I am using the 1992 and 1998 DHS datasets for India. I am unable to get my head around how to re-adjust weights in both datasets due to the following reasons.

For my analysis, I have to make both datasets consistent with each other because I want to use them in the same regression. Therefore, I had to drop certain observations specified below:

1) The data for kids in 1998 dataset is for kids under the age of 35 months. So I had to drop data for kids greater than 35 months in the 1992 file.
2) Merging village files with the household and kids files in both datasets results in unmatched observations for urban towns. So I had to drop these and keep observations for only rural areas.
3)There are around 370 districts in both datasets. However, the 1998 dataset increased the coverage to include additional 50 districts. But I had to drop these observations to make the 2 data-sets consistent.

Can you please suggest how I should re-adjust weights in both the datasets? I am working in stata.

Many thanks
R

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		Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Thu, 06 August 2015 13:20
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 07 August 2015 09:33
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Fri, 07 August 2015 11:00
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Wed, 12 August 2015 19:01
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 13 August 2015 11:26
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Fri, 14 August 2015 14:07
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Sun, 16 August 2015 12:14
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 16 August 2015 17:11
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Sun, 16 August 2015 17:17
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 16 August 2015 20:59
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Tue, 18 August 2015 13:06
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 26 August 2015 07:37
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Tue, 01 September 2015 08:34
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 01 September 2015 12:41
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Tue, 08 September 2015 09:07
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 10 September 2015 06:09
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: user_rm on Fri, 11 September 2015 06:12
		Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 18 September 2015 14:17

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