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Fri, 10 January 2025 09:36

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

That is an issue between you and the journal. DHS always recommends the use of weights. Otherwise, estimates are biased toward the over-sampled strata, which tend to be the smaller strata. That's true for all statistics, not just for means.

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