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Declaring my Data Survey Data [message #13889]

Thu, 18 January 2018 16:25

Dangboye
Messages: 1
Registered: September 2017

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Good afternoon everyone,
I am trying to do a difference in difference using DHS Data on Nigeria in 1990, 1999, 2003, 2008, and 2013. I am concerned about how to weight each observation as I am not sure using weight=hv105/1000000 from my pooled data works fine. Also, in declaring the data as a survey data, I wrote my command as:
svyset [pweight=weight], psu(hv021) strata(strata) having defining my hv023 as my strata. When I run this command, it states single unit missing and running a regression based on that yields to estimates with no t statistics, confidence intervals etc.
I would appreciate any response that could help me work through this.
Regards.

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Re: Declaring my Data Survey Data [message #13891 is a reply to message #13889]

Fri, 19 January 2018 07:03

Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3230
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

Yes, you are ok with that weight. I recommend that you add "singleunit(centered)" to the end of the svyset statement. There are other options besides "centered" but they all give about the same results.

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