| Re: Cross-sectional Data Merge & Adjust Weights [message #27516 is a reply to message #27509] |
Mon, 28 August 2023 15:51  |
Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS Lead Statistician, Ruilin Ren:
Thanks for the question. The principles and the procedures to de-normalize DHS survey weights are addressed in many occasions and discussed a lot in the user forum. It does not depend on the type of the survey; the normalized weight should be divided by the sampling fraction for the sampling unit the weight is associated. It is true that the denormalization of SPA weight is not discussed much because it is a little bit more complex, not the procedure, but the information needed for the denormalization is usually not available, for provider weights and client weights. For the health facility weight, it is easy, and the information needed is provided in the SPA final report: the total number of health facilities in the master list and the number of health facilities interviewed. While for the provider weights and the client weights, the total number of providers and the total number of clients, by client type, are usually not available and we cannot advise the users where to find them. That is a difficult point, currently we do not have any advice.
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