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Re: Weighting and pooling multicountry datasets [message #30255 is a reply to message #30249] Wed, 23 October 2024 06:16 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Thank you for this reponse, it is very helpful. I'd like to ask a clarifying question. If I understood correctly, the procedure described in the response and the file involves recalculating weights using the information about countries population size at the time of the survey. This way of rescaling means that the largest country will dominate the results.

The response of Janet-DHS (Fri, 03 June 2022 13:45) below suggested that this is one of the options to rescale weights, with the second being "rescale so that the total weight is the same for each country (or survey). That is, if you pool 10 countries, you re-scale so that each survey has 1/10 of the total weight". Could you provide description on how to do that second type of rescaling?

Thank you again.

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