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| Re: Which weight to use, Household or Child? [message #6934 is a reply to message #6697] |
Wed, 05 August 2015 10:18  |
Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior Sampling Specialist, Ruilin Ren:
If you merge the HR file with the KR file, the only weight variables you might need are the household weight HV005, and the household weight for the sub-sample of male survey HV028 (if there is a male survey and that it was conducted in a sub-sample of households). Since we usually do not calculate a child weight, you have to use the household weight for anthropometry indicators. If the anthropometry is measured in all of the households, you can use HV005. If anthropometry is measured in the male sub-sample, you can use HV028.
Please note that the survey final report might have used HV005 in the later case too (may not be systematically), so if you want to match the report figures, you may try both weights to figure out which one to use. But the difference should be very small, and will not alter any statistical conclusions.
Hope this is helpful.
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