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Re: All women factor in stata [message #9624 is a reply to message #9612]

Mon, 25 April 2016 08:41

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is another response from Tom Pullum:

I think this may be getting even more complicated than is really necessary. The all-woman factors are needed when you are trying to estimate something for all women, but you have to work with ever-married women because that's all you have in the sample. An example is when you want to estimate a fertility rate for all women but you only have the births and exposure for ever-married women. You have to assume that (a) never-married women have no births and (b) awfact/100 is a multiplier to inflate exposure for ever-married women to exposure for all women. What kind of a logit regression are you doing for which this distinction is relevant? What is the binary outcome variable? Can you assume that all of the never-married women would have the same specific outcome (either 0 or 1) if you could measure it?

The all-woman factors are calculated for categories such as all urban women or all rural women. Those categories/variables must be present in the household survey. In a multivariate analysis, which your use of logit regression suggests, the factors may not be prepared in advance. If you want to do something complicated, it will be safest to bypass the all-woman factors all together and just say that you are working with ever-married women. You may have to accept that it will be difficult and maybe impossible to extrapolate to all women. If the officials in a country wanted to produce estimates that apply to all women, then they should have interviewed all women.

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		All women factor in stata By: charvey91 on Fri, 19 February 2016 06:59
		Re: All women factor in stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 23 February 2016 15:11
		Re: All women factor in stata By: voddo on Fri, 22 April 2016 14:20
		Re: All women factor in stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 25 April 2016 08:41
		Re: All women factor in stata By: Nahid on Thu, 12 November 2020 05:52
		Re: All women factor in stata By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 12 November 2020 08:06

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