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Sat, 08 April 2017 14:20

catherino222
Messages: 4
Registered: February 2017
Location: London ON

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Hello,

I have a question about the population size in regression outputs. I used the code below for applying weights and survey design in Stata.

egen clusters=group(v021), label
egen strata=group(v024 v025), label
svyset cluster [pweight=v005], strata(strata) singleunit(centered)

My data is Cameroon DHS 2011(15,426 women in sample).
My output, however, shows a very large population size. I thought the population size was suppose to reflect the population of women in the country.
Also, will the population size double if 2 datasets (2004 and 2011)for the same country are pooled together?

Here is the output for CDHS 2011:

Number of strata = 22 Number of obs = 15426
Number of PSUs = 578 Population size = 15425999854
Design df = 556
F( 1, 556) = 127.68
Prob > F = 0.0000

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------
| Linearized
v301 | Odds Ratio Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+---------------------------------------------- ------------------
v024 | 1.131586 .0123798 11.30 0.000 1.107528 1.156166
_cons | 7.975635 .9747392 16.99 0.000 6.273487 10.13962
------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------
thank you
Catherine

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		population size By: catherino222 on Sat, 08 April 2017 14:20
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