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Re: Need to calculate country weight based on facilities when combining two SPA surveys? [message #10474 is a reply to message #10397]

Wed, 27 July 2016 09:58

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from DHS Stata Specialist, Shireen Assaf:

I would avoid pooling the data from the two surveys you mention, and run the model for each country/survey separately. If you run the models in this way, there is no need then to calculate country weights.

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		Need to calculate country weight based on facilities when combining two SPA surveys? By: masjas on Mon, 25 July 2016 09:39
		Re: Need to calculate country weight based on facilities when combining two SPA surveys? By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 27 July 2016 09:58
		Re: Need to calculate country weight based on facilities when combining two SPA surveys? By: masjas on Mon, 01 August 2016 01:43
		Re: Need to calculate country weight based on facilities when combining two SPA surveys? By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 01 August 2016 09:38

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