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

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

Steve,
thank you very much for the help, I now understand.
Michele

On 18/05/2011 15:10, Steven Samuels wrote:
> Michele
>
> Your question is not clear to me.  The statement in the 2007 Bangladesh Final Report is:
> "The final weights were normalized in order to give the total number of un-weighted cases equal to the total number of weighted cases at national level, for both household weights and individual weights."
>
> This appears to refer to the normalization (I called it "standardization", incorrectly) that was applied to the weights before their distribution.
>
> If you are asking: can you apply a correction to the weights so that you can estimate population *totals*, the answer is "No".  If you want to convert percentages totals, you must multiply them by an external estimate of the total for the population. This, to my mind, is one of the most serious problems with using normalized rates-that they do not provide independent estimates of totals.
>
> Steve
> sjsamuels@gmail.com
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>
>
> On May 18, 2011, at 4:43 AM, michele savini zangrandi wrote:
>
> 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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