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Weighted counts
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1)From my understanding, individual observations when multiplied with weights, should give the count of the actual population.
For example. The total percent of men who have diabetes is 2.13%. Which in the weighted count (table below) shows a value of 2396. However my understanding is that the weighted count must show some 35-million (approx) cases of men who are actually diabetic in India.
2)Also is there any problem in using scaled singleunit for svy instead of "missing"?
Note: Variance scaled to handle strata with a single sampling unit.
]]>siddu1232019-03-26T07:04:54-00:00Re: Weighted counts
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:
The DHS weights are NOT "inflation" weights, which could be used to estimate population counts. Rather, the weights are calculated to add up to the sample size, except that they include a factor of 1000000 (one million) which simply moves the decimal place 6 places to the right. If you want to inflate to population, counts, you will have to use a multiplier. We do not recommend doing this, because of sampling error.