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Re: Weighting after pooling multiple countries [message #24657 is a reply to message #24633]

Wed, 15 June 2022 09:03

Janet-DHS
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Registered: April 2022

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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

For pweights it does not make any difference whether you multiply or divide by a constant (such as 1000000). To confirm that, I suggest that you do a regression (for example) both ways. I don't think you will see a difference....

I recommend that you get the cluster and stratum id codes this way:

egen cluster_id=group(survey v021)
egen stratum_id=group(survey v023)

"egen" (extensions to "generate") is a very powerful set of commands.

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