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Re: Weighting variables in DHS India data (1992 and 1998) [message #6982 is a reply to message #6970] Fri, 07 August 2015 11:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Many thanks for your reply. I have 2 follow up questions:

1. I am not clear on why the weights wouldn't change if I use data for kids below the age of 35 months? I say this because the 1992 dataset has kids data upto 4 years while 1998 dataset has kids data upto 3 years. To both datasets consistent, I had to drop the kids of age 4 years from the 1992 dataset. Wouldn't that mean that the weights, in principle, change?

2. Even if I don't re-adjust weights, I will still have to weight the data using the weights provided in the data? How do I do that?
Or is the NFHS data already weighted?

Please clarify.

Regards,
R

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