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Can I add a variable to a complex sample, and run a regression?
In a survey, a complex sample was collected, and the sample was designed to provide estimates at national level. In other words, individuals from one state were more likely to be sampled due to ...
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Sampling correlated clusters and calculating their weights
In a survey I want to do I have the following problem: I have 20 clusters, and I need to choose 5. Each cluster has 10 observations, and I need to choose 2.
Lets say that the probability of choosing a ...
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How to treat age-eligibility thresholds in household surveys (e.g. HRS)?
Most household surveys have age-eligibility thresholds. The HRS interviews individuals aged 51 and older, plus their spouse (if any) using PPS sampling.
Do I need to drop individuals who are younger ...
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Unbiased estimate of mean test score of pupils in a country (sampling frame of schools is avaible only)
My primary goal is to get unbiased estimate of mean test score of every pupil in a country. I have no sampling frame of all pupils to randomly sample from. But I have a sampling frame for every school....
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Can I make a proportional-to-size without replacement sample (PPS WOR) self weighted?
Let's say I have 100 schools and each has a different number of students. I want to estimate which % of students are in schools with electricity. Simulation and theory indicate it is more efficient to ...
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Post-stratification with missing subpopulations in the survey
I have some survey data on a population described by age, gender, and weight. It’s quite skewed so I want to reweight it to a known target population (a larger ...
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Sample Size determination at coutry level or states levels
A country is stratified into states. A researchers wants to carry out a survey with a main requirement of state level data representation. I wonder if sample size should be determine using country ...
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Utilizing ipfraking to apply post-stratification weights for a Community Based Survey in Stata
I am a community data analyst for a small non-profit in South Florida. We are cleaning and preparing a local community survey for analysis and need to apply post-stratification weights to the survey ...
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How to calculate sampling weight for small sample?
I have a very small sample size on drowning data of Bangladesh in following way
Now I want to give sampling weight for further analysis. How can I calculate sampling weight for the data? I have ...
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Sample weights interpretation
The sample followed a two-stage design. In the first stage the primary sampling units (enumarating areas, EA) were randomly selected. In the second stage, in each EA, 10 secondary sampling units (...
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Calculate confidence levels of a stratified sample with missing units
I'm conducting a stratified survey among health institutions; 700 units were allocated into one of the 30 strata designed to reflect the proportionality of the population. However, it's been difficult ...
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Permissible to use survey data in generating sampling weights?
Summary: Can I use non-population information (e.g. representative proportions from another survey) when calculating sampling weights? If so how might one account for the sampling error?
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Recommend references on survey sample weighting
Let's aim for some at an introductory level, some articles and some textbooks. Applied is more helpful, including R code is great. Thanks!