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Kenya DHS weights [message #27983] Tue, 31 October 2023 06:53 Go to previous message
Ritapriya Bandyopadhyay is currently offline  Ritapriya Bandyopadhyay
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Dear all,

I am looking at school enrollment, progression and repetition for children in Kenya - I am looking at these indicators grade-wise. I have a few questions:

1. For school enrollment - I am looking at hv121 and hv125 (member attended school current and previous year respectively) - now for Grade 1 I see there are respondents who said "yes" to hv125 (attended school last year) - what does it mean? Does it mean these children were in pre-primary or early childhood education? I am asking because the number is high.

2. Secondly, to make calculations easier - I have re-coded secondary-level grades and higher level grades. Secondary-level grades have been coded as 9,10,11,12,13,14 and similarly higher-education grades have been coded from 13-19. Nonetheless, I am using the following code:

tab agrdprvyr_i scheprvyr_i [iweight = hv005/1000000]

agrdprvyr_i is previous year grades (coded as hv127 in DHS) and scheprvyr_i is school enrollment last year (coded as hv125 in DHS)

My question is that when I use weights, why is the "number of observations" decreasing? Secondly the data is showing that only 1621 individuals were enrolled in grade 12 last year - but this is a very small number, and doesn't seem right. Am I doing anything wrong with the weights? Please help.

I have attached snapshots of both unweighted and weighted data

Best,
Ritapriya
 
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