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Zero values for weight variable?
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I am working on women's flat data for 2011 of Bangladesh for some sort of multilevel analysis and wanted to prepare weight variables for both the individual women (clusters in HH level=v002) and HHs (clusters in PSU level=v001) levels. I found that 93 cases have 0 for weight variable, v005. I prepared a file for such cases plus matching key values for V001 and v002 and for your information (FYI), first few lines are given below:
Since statistical software will discard those cases for any kind weighted analysis, so we have to find weight values for those women. Based on the above data, it may be clear we can assign 275954 to v005 for eqn(2) from egn(3) because they are from the same cluster and HH. I am giving some detail info below. For eqn(1) (cluster and HH combination is only single woman interviewed) and eqn(4) below, I saw that all weights are the same for cluster 6 (=v001) and seemed to me we can also assign 609991 to v005 for women in cluter 6 and HH = 69. Do you think the process of replacing 0 weights correct? FYI, there is no zero weights for HHs.
Thank you in advance.
]]>mmr-UMICH2015-02-17T01:28:49-00:00Re: Zero values for weight variable?
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I had a question (please see message # 3808) regarding sampling weight variable, v005, of women's flat file of Bangladesh DHS 2011. There are 93 cases with 0 for v005 variable. Could any one from DHS team help me in this matter at your conveniences?
Thanking you.
Moshiur]]>mmr-UMICH2015-02-18T18:19:43-00:00Re: Zero values for weight variable?
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Trevor-DHS2015-02-21T21:07:58-00:00