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Re: Response rate and weights [message #26578 is a reply to message #26577]

Mon, 03 April 2023 15:01

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

You still need to use weights in all analyses in order to have unbiased estimates of coefficients. Weights compensate for the over-sampling of some sub-populations and the under-sampling of some other sub-populations. If you do not use weights, all statistics will be biased toward the over-sampled sub-populations and away from the under-sampled sub-populations. The merging has not altered the need to use weights.

As I have said elsewhere, some people, mainly economists, do not like weights, and they can be very dogmatic about that position. I am not being dogmatic. I just put a high value on having unbiased estimates.

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		Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Thu, 30 March 2023 03:30
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 30 March 2023 11:06
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Fri, 31 March 2023 00:14
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 31 March 2023 12:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Sat, 01 April 2023 04:52
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 03 April 2023 09:15
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Mon, 03 April 2023 13:41
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 03 April 2023 15:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Mon, 03 April 2023 17:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Wed, 12 April 2023 04:08
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 12 April 2023 07:48
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Wed, 19 April 2023 20:50
		Re: Response rate and weights By: fred.arnold@icf.com on Thu, 20 April 2023 11:21

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