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Re: How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? [message #3916 is a reply to message #3894]

Thu, 05 March 2015 16:00

Trevor-DHS
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1) If you are using DHS data for the first time and have never used survey data before, then you are probabbly taking on too much. I suggest learning to use a single survey dataset first and being able to reproduce published results before you try to do anything as complicated as you are suggesting.
2) It is not clear that you need to combine datasets based on the aim you have stated. You can analyze each dataset individually.
3) You should know that each individual dataset includes its own weight so you should be weighting data even if you are only analyzing one survey.
4) If you do need to pool data, you will need to denormalize the weights and then use the denormalized weights. There are several posts on the forum related to this.
5) Once you have the denormalized weights for your pooled data then you would apply weights just as you do for any other analysis, depending on the software you are using.

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		How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? By: kinsukmanisinha@gmail.com on Mon, 02 March 2015 10:50
		Re: How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? By: Trevor-DHS on Thu, 05 March 2015 16:00
		Re: How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? By: kinsukmanisinha@gmail.com on Tue, 10 March 2015 08:52
		Re: How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? By: Trevor-DHS on Mon, 16 March 2015 19:46
		Re: How to combine data from different countries for a period of years? By: kinsukmanisinha@gmail.com on Tue, 17 March 2015 06:50

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