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Re: st: weight in a field survey
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"Michael I. Lichter" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: weight in a field survey
Date
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:43:23 -0400
Estelle,
If this is a true PPS design, you shouldn't have to weight for anything
except for unequal probabilities of selection across strata. (Unequal
probabilities for village selection are balanced out by unequal
probabilities for household selection.) That weight would be, as I think
you're saying, weight for stratum i = 1/(proportion of total population
in stratum i). Of course, you will also want to add a weight for
household size when doing individual-level tabulations.
Michael
Estelle PASQUIER wrote:
Dear statlist,
We are conducting a field survey on
malaria. Our population is sampled by stratifying it in rural and urban
settings (first step) then selecting villages with a probability proportional
to their population sizes. The last step consists in selecting randomly a fixed
number of households in the village.
I am a little bit concern with the sample
weights I have to choose with svy: my suggestion would be to calculate the
stratum weight as the ratio of total population on population in each stratum;
to calculate the cluster weight as the inverse of the sampling probability, and
then to use the product of these two weights as final weight. Am I right?
My second concern is to know if I there is
anything to do for the last step of this sampling design?
Thanks for any help,
Estelle
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