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

[michele savini zangrandi <michele.savini@googlemail.com>]

Thank you Steve,
Does that mean that if I want to get population estimates (with large 
standard errors of course) I have to normalize the weights to the 
population size as reported on the country final report?
Michele

On 17/05/2011 23:12, Steven Samuels wrote:
> 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
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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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