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Re: When weights are not supported [message #3196 is a reply to message #3188]

Wed, 05 November 2014 08:20

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from senior DHS Specialist, Tom Pullum.

I really don't think there is an easy answer to this question. If the software doesn't allow you to use weights--and there are several complex statistical procedures for which a weighted version has not yet been written--then your results for each country, let alone all countries combined, will be biased toward the over-sampled sub-populations.

I recommend that you include fixed effects for country or survey, and fixed or random effects for all the strata, in your models. Most of the variation in the weights (v005 and the survey-specific factors that you could calculate) will be explained by those effects. Perhaps other users have different solutions to this problem.

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		When weights are not supported By: Yohannes on Mon, 03 November 2014 20:06
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 05 November 2014 08:20
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Yohannes on Wed, 05 November 2014 18:54
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 11 November 2014 12:26
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 11 November 2014 20:19
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Yohannes on Wed, 12 November 2014 00:36
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Reduced-For(u)m on Thu, 06 November 2014 00:09
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Yohannes on Thu, 06 November 2014 18:39
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Reduced-For(u)m on Fri, 07 November 2014 16:22
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Yohannes on Sat, 08 November 2014 07:24
		Re: When weights are not supported By: lhuri on Sun, 21 December 2014 05:43
		Re: When weights are not supported By: Trevor-DHS on Fri, 26 December 2014 11:14
		Re: When weights are not supported By: lhuri on Sat, 03 January 2015 10:54

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