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Re: Number of obs and population size not the same [message #26786 is a reply to message #26785]

Mon, 01 May 2023 12:45

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

You should not have to do any re-weighting. If you are using Stata, with svyset and [pweight=v005], Stata will always re-normalize so the weights have a mean of 1. As part of this, the factor of 1,000,000 is removed. (That's why you get the same results with [pweight=v005] or with [pweight=v005/1000000]. I don't know about packages other than Stata.

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		Number of obs and population size not the same By: Johanne Elgaard on Mon, 01 May 2023 08:00
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		Re: Number of obs and population size not the same By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 01 May 2023 12:45

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