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Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression [message #13785 is a reply to message #13783]

Fri, 22 December 2017 07:31

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

Yes, that's right. When using iweight you do need to divide by 1000000. It is only with pweight that Stata will automatically re-scale the weights to have a mean of 1.

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		Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: rkchettri on Tue, 19 December 2017 07:40
		Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 21 December 2017 17:55
		Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: rkchettri on Thu, 21 December 2017 19:25
		Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 22 December 2017 07:31
		Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: rkchettri on Wed, 10 January 2018 07:55
		Re: Sample weight and use of svy command in regression By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 11 January 2018 08:16

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