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Re: Weighting the KR for multiple countries [message #597 is a reply to message #363]

Wed, 03 July 2013 18:31

bsayer
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Registered: March 2013
Location: Silver Spring Maryland

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I think you are right on the money regarding "What does the pooled data represent". That is a key question. And are the countries sufficiently similar in the characteristic that you are studying to warrant pooling? If the answer to the second question is yes, then I don't think you need to do anything to the weights, provided you are using survey design capable software. In the context of SAS, this is somewhat iffy, as I don't trust the results.

BTW, in SAS you just use one set statement and list the five data sets. Just make sure the variable names and lengths are the same in all five data sets.

Bryan Sayer
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Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.

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		Weighting the KR for multiple countries By: DHSStudent on Tue, 23 April 2013 16:49
		Re: Weighting the KR for multiple countries By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 23 April 2013 17:15
		Re: Weighting the KR for multiple countries By: bsayer on Wed, 03 July 2013 18:31

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