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Use of weight on subsetted data
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If I would like to study only a subset of population i.e. men with children.
Can the original sampling weight be applied?
Will the applied weight ensure national respresentativeness of subsetted data?
Or I will need to calculate the new sampling weights based on the subsetted data?
Hope someone can guide me for this.
Thanks :) ]]>FLW2019-08-15T18:14:18-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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Best,
Bruno]]>schoumaker2019-08-15T19:38:12-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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https://stylizeddata.com/how-to-use-survey-weights-in-r/
is it appropriate to do so?
Use svydesign in R to declare surveydata and weights, then only i subset the data.
Will it fix the rescaling issue?]]>FLW2019-08-16T06:52:48-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
Are you asking whether it is appropriate to use weights with DHS data (it is!) or are you asking how to use weights with R? The link should provide all the information you need about the latter.]]>Bridgette-DHS2019-09-03T18:40:45-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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I know that v005 are the weights usually used for weighing in DHS but I am unsure how it is constructed, and thus how I could rescale the data. What factors are used to create v005? ]]>LizavG2019-11-10T20:52:41-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
There are some Stata commands that do not allow svyset. For some of those commands, however, you CAN use weights, or weights and clusters, so long as you don't include strata, which seem to be the most complicated part of the svyset adjustments. You can use the weights with, for example, "[pweight=v005]" or "[iweight=v005/1000000]". Those inserts always go before the comma in the estimation command. You can try to use the cluster adjustment by putting "cluster(v021)", for example, with the options AFTER the comma. That may work even if svyset is not accepted.
If you are using pweight, which is the type of weight that is required in svyset, you do not need to re-scale v005 in any way. In fact, with pweights you CANNOT rescale v005. Whatever variable you enter as a pweight will always be rescaled so the values add to 1. For that reason, for example, "[pweight=v005]" and "[pweight=v005/1000000]" will always give you the same results. Many users go through the step of defining the weight to be v005/1000000 but that's not necessary (for the pweight option). Hope this answers your question.
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I use spss software.]]>Wahyu dh2020-06-22T23:24:00-00:00Re: Use of weight on subsetted data
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
I am not familiar with using weights in SPSS. I have reviewed the earlier posts in this thread and don't have anything to add. If you are having trouble matching something, please tell us which survey you are using, the number of the table in the main report, and the number you cannot match (a percentage or a frequency).]]>Bridgette-DHS2020-06-30T20:50:15-00:00