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Re: Which weight to use, Household or Child? [message #5629 is a reply to message #5581]

Wed, 17 June 2015 17:33

Reduced-For(u)m
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My thoughts in this particular instance is that you want the weight from the dataset where your outcome variable comes from (in this case, stunting). So since the observations on the left hand side of your regression come from the child recode, you should use those weights.

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		Which weight to use, Household or Child? By: duke2015 on Wed, 10 June 2015 11:10
		Re: Which weight to use, Household or Child? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Wed, 17 June 2015 17:33
		Re: Which weight to use, Household or Child? By: duke2015 on Mon, 29 June 2015 10:40
		Re: Which weight to use, Household or Child? By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 05 August 2015 10:18

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