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Re: Response rate and weights [message #26573 is a reply to message #26565]

Mon, 03 April 2023 09:15

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

Yes, you can get father's education from hv106 on the father's line in the PR file, and you don't need mv106 in the MR file. That's good because there are about 6 times as many men in the PR file as in the MR file (in NFHS-5). hv106 is considered to be less accurate than mv106, because the information comes from the household respondent, who may be someone other than the man himself, but it's useful for your purposes.

In your merged file I would agree that v005 would be the weight to use--it's the weight for the mother and also for the child--except that if you go ahead and merge with the MR file as well, you should use mv005 when your model includes variables from the MR file. That will give the best adjustment for nonresponse.

I don't have time to construct that merged file, and in any case it would be too big to send. The program is really just a template that users can adapt. You may want to do some checks to make sure it contains the cases and variables you want.

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		Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Thu, 30 March 2023 03:30
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 30 March 2023 11:06
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Fri, 31 March 2023 00:14
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 31 March 2023 12:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Sat, 01 April 2023 04:52
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 03 April 2023 09:15
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Mon, 03 April 2023 13:41
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 03 April 2023 15:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Mon, 03 April 2023 17:01
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Wed, 12 April 2023 04:08
		Re: Response rate and weights By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 12 April 2023 07:48
		Re: Response rate and weights By: shreyaj7 on Wed, 19 April 2023 20:50
		Re: Response rate and weights By: fred.arnold@icf.com on Thu, 20 April 2023 11:21

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