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Re: Using weights for small geographical locations [message #3375 is a reply to message #3353]

Mon, 01 December 2014 10:30

Trevor-DHS
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You can and should still use hv005 as the sample weight, but doing your analysis with smaller geographic units is potentially problematic. The sample is designed to be representative at the region level, but not at the level of smaller units. As you disaggregate the data to smaller units the sample is less and less likely to be representative. The sample is also designed to provide a certain level of accuracy at the region level, and again as you disaggregate to smaller units the accuracy of those estimates gets worse and worse and the confidence intervals around the estimates quickly become very large and unreliable.

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		Using weights for small geographical locations By: nobleman00 on Tue, 25 November 2014 20:29
		Re: Using weights for small geographical locations By: Trevor-DHS on Mon, 01 December 2014 10:30
		Re: Using weights for small geographical locations By: nobleman00 on Mon, 01 December 2014 19:59
		Re: Using weights for small geographical locations By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 02 December 2014 11:07
		Re: Using weights for small geographical locations By: degreepupil on Thu, 10 July 2025 04:55

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