| Re: Sampling weight calculation for Under five children of Bangladesh [message #15941 is a reply to message #15426] |
Mon, 08 October 2018 18:07  |
Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:
The best source for an estimate of, say, the number of children under 5 in Bangladesh at the time of the survey would be from the website for the UN Population Division (https://population.un.org/wpp/). Once you have such a number, you can use DHS data to estimate, say, the number of children under five who do not have a full set of immunizations, by applying the proportion in the DHS sample to the population age 0-4 estimated by the UN.
The DHS weights are calculated in such a way that the sum of v005/1,000,000 is equal to the total sample size (of women). You might think that if you inflate those weights by a factor 1/F, where F is the sampling fraction, you will get population estimates. That's correct, but the estimates would not be as good as if you use another source such as the UN numbers I mentioned above.
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