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Strata specification across multiple surveys
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Based on what I've read in this forum, it seems that generally crossing district and urban/rural (ex. <group(v024 v025)>) is an appropriate methodology, but there are some instances where that is not correct, for example Bangladesh 2011, where there were 3 levels of stratification. Can v022 be used in general, but replaced with the cross of v024/v025 when it is missing? If not, is there a centralized list of strata across surveys that could be shared? Any other suggestions?
Many thanks for your help.
PS - The surveys I'm using are: Bangladesh 2011, Benin 2011-12, Comoros 2012, Congo Brazzaville 2011-12, Congo Democratic Republic 2013-14, Cote d'Ivoire 2011-12, Dominican Republic 2013, Egypt 2014, Gabon 2012, Ghana 2014, Guinea 2012, Haiti 2012, Honduras 2011-12, Indonesia 2012, Jordan 2012, Kenya 2014, Kyrgyz Republic 2012, Liberia 2013, Mali 2012-13, Namibia 2013, Nepal 2011, Niger 2012, Nigeria 2013, Pakistan 2012-13, Peru 2012, Sierra Leone 2013, Tajikistan 2012, Togo 2013-14, Uganda 2011, Yemen 2013 and Zambia 2013-14.
]]>lmcdougal2016-02-25T23:05:36-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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A list of the strata in all surveys is being prepared. I'm sorry that it is not yet available. I will remind the person who is preparing it.
A cross of v024 and v025 will always be very close to correct. In some files, v022 is provided but is incorrect. If you just do "tab v022" or "codebook v022" and find that there are many (e.g. more than 70) values and only a small number of households (e.g. the households in two clusters) in each stratum, it means that v022 is not correct, and it will be safer to include v024 x v025. In some of the older surveys, a pairing of clusters was part of the design and somehow those pairs were incorrectly put into v022.
Your surveys are so recent that I think v022 will be correct or, at worst, missing. I don't think the previous paragraph will apply.
]]>Bridgette-DHS2016-03-02T16:49:38-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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lmcdougal2016-03-02T22:36:28-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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lillo?S2016-11-14T16:56:22-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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Has this list of strata been prepared?
Thanks.
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dhswes2017-10-31T18:43:51-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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jswindle2019-03-06T15:34:42-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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on the forum to generate strata using v024 and v025 there are surveys with a more complex strata specification and given that I pull many countries together I would not like to make a mistake of incorrectly specifying the strata where they are not a combination of urban/rural and region.
Throughout the forum according to some responses, the recommendation was to use v022, in other responses v023. It looks like these variables are similar but not exactly the same. Would you be able to clarify what the difference between the v022 and v023 is and which one is closer to representing strata?
Thank you!
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behayes42020-04-02T17:45:11-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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atlien2020-08-19T16:59:40-00:00Re: Strata specification across multiple surveys
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