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Re: Guidance on Using Weights for North-East India Analysis in NFHS-5 [message #29642 is a reply to message #29631]

Fri, 12 July 2024 08:57

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

The state weights would be used for the analysis of a single state, but for a group of states, such as North-East India, you would use the national weights.

I suggest the following, although it is really not necessary. You could re-normalize the national weight, which has a mean of 1 million at the national level, so that it has a weight of 1 million for the region. You would do that by opening the IR file, reducing it to the North-East, and then entering these two lines (in Stata):

summarize v005
gen v005_region=1000000*v005/r(mean)

Then the mean weight of v005_region will be 1000000.

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