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Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset [message #27901 is a reply to message #27900]

Thu, 19 October 2023 10:55

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Staff Member, Tom Pullum:

When you use svyset, the "number of observations" often shifts to some large number that's much different from the actual sample size. Frankly, I just ignore that number. Whatever it is, it's NOT the number of observations.

For what you are doing, you only need to adjust for the weights, not clustering or stratification. The adjustments for clustering and stratification only affect the standard errors of estimates, not the estimates themselves. If your command is just "tab age school_level [iweight=hv005/1000000]", I think you will get the same results. That table would give the weighted number of cases in the sample. The percentages describe both the sample and the population.

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		Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Ritapriya Bandyopadhyay on Wed, 18 October 2023 02:55
		Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 19 October 2023 08:33
		Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Ritapriya Bandyopadhyay on Thu, 19 October 2023 09:04
		Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 19 October 2023 10:55
		Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Ritapriya Bandyopadhyay on Thu, 26 October 2023 01:49
		Re: Reshaping Kenya's DHS dataset By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 21 November 2023 09:16

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