Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993

Reference ID

BFA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

Aug 23, 2018

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Sample weight for persons (W_PERWEIGHT)

Data file: BFA1993-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 6

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

PERWEIGHT (V005) is an 8-digit variable with 6 implied decimal places, which should be used as a weighting factor to produce representative numbers accurately describing the surveyed population.

While the DHS Recode Manuals direct the researcher to divide the original weight variable by 1,000,000 before applying the weighting factor to the original DHS data files, it is not necessary to modify the value of PERWEIGHT before applying this weight to cases in IPUMS-DHS.

PERWEIGHT should be used to weight nearly all tabulations made using IPUMS-DHS data. Occasionally, as with the domestic violence variables, a subset of respondents are randomly selected to answer questions from a survey module, and a specialized weight such as DVWEIGHT should be used instead.

Note: The 6 implied decimal places in PERWEIGHT mean that the last six digits of the eight-digit variable are decimal digits, but there is no actual decimal in the data.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Weights and subsample selection Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

PERWEIGHT is an 8-digit numeric variable with 6 implied decimal places. See the variable description for directions on the use of PERWEIGHT.

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