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Re: st: dhs data in stata number of obs and population size


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: dhs data in stata number of obs and population size
Date   Tue, 17 May 2011 17:12:27 -0400

According to the DHS Recode Manual (http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG4/Recode1DHS.pdf), the weights are standardized to sum to sample size. You should be very familiar with this manual.


-Steve

Steven J. Samuels
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On May 17, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Michele Savini Zangrandi wrote:

This is a question to anyone who has some familiarity with the DHS survey.

I am trying to use dhs survey data in stata, but am unsure on how to
parametrize it correctly,

So far, using the household members recode file, I have done the following

pweight: w3
VCE: linearized
Single unit: missing
Strata 1: hv022
SU 1: hv021
FPC 1: <zero>

where w3=hv005/1000000

Under this parametrization, when I issue an "svy: tab" command for any
variable, Stata reports a population size very similar to the number
of observations. This seems a little strange to me. I am doing
something wrong?

I would really appreciate your help.

Regards

Michele
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