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Re: weighting combined datasets [message #596 is a reply to message #482]

Wed, 03 July 2013 18:27

bsayer
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Registered: March 2013
Location: Silver Spring Maryland

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I don't think re-normalizing is weighting all surveys to be of equal weight. It simply scales the weight to the total number of observations and the relative variability remains the same.

I also don't think it is necessary, if you use survey software. The scale of the weights is irrelevant.

Bryan Sayer
Statistician
Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.

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