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Re: Response rate and weights [message #26578 is a reply to message #26577] Mon, 03 April 2023 15:01 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

You still need to use weights in all analyses in order to have unbiased estimates of coefficients. Weights compensate for the over-sampling of some sub-populations and the under-sampling of some other sub-populations. If you do not use weights, all statistics will be biased toward the over-sampled sub-populations and away from the under-sampled sub-populations. The merging has not altered the need to use weights.

As I have said elsewhere, some people, mainly economists, do not like weights, and they can be very dogmatic about that position. I am not being dogmatic. I just put a high value on having unbiased estimates.

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