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Re: Clarification on applying sampling weights in Stata using India NFHS-5 [message #30966 is a reply to message #30908] Wed, 07 May 2025 04:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Use v005 as the weight (divide by 1,000,000), v021 for clustering, and v023 for stratification--not v022, which is less accurate for India. The weight already accounts for oversampling, so no extra adjustment is needed.
 
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