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Ghana DHS Data [message #9358]

Fri, 18 March 2016 23:35

Dejavugps
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Registered: March 2016
Location: Denton, TX

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Hello,

Please, I want to know if I could use the data directly without converting to percentage of the population sampled. My thought is that DHS is randomly sampled from the population.

Ayodeji

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Re: Ghana DHS Data [message #9383 is a reply to message #9358]

Tue, 22 March 2016 21:05

user-rhs
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Registered: December 2013

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DHS data are not randomly sampled from the population, but a complex sampling scheme (usually two-stage cluster sampling) is employed. The DHS final report for the specific country and year will tell you exactly how the sampling was done. This means you will need to make some adjustments to the estimates (e.g., clustering, weighting, or both) if you want to make population-level inferences.

rhs

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