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Re: Enumeration Block [message #21942 is a reply to message #21844] Sun, 10 January 2021 05:15 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Dear DHS Representative,

I have copied the following text from https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/3411

"The first stage involved selecting sample points (clusters) consisting of EBs. EBs were drawn with a probability proportional to their size, which is the number of households residing in the EB at the time of the census. A total of 580 clusters were selected."

Quest1: In my understanding, the enumeration block in urban strata is a city or a county/town of the city and for rural strata, it is a village or group of villages. However, looking at the text from the above site its seems that there is no difference in cluster & EB?

Quest2: In my understanding, the clusters are selected from EB in the first stage by performing the systematic random sampling on the sorted list of households with probability proportionate to size (That is how many houses (buildings in urban & huts in rural strata) are listed (Not the number of household members residing in the EB from which we have to select the clusters). But reading the text from the world Bank website gives the impression that size means the number of peoples residing in EB not the number of houses/huts.

Quest3: EBs were not drawn by Probability Proportionate to size instead clusters were drawn by Probablity Proportionate to the size of that particular EB. (Do I have the correct concept)?

Kindly Clarify this confusion.


Best Regards

Dr. Hussain
 
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