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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Burkina Faso, 2010
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BFA_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD), Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances [Burkina Faso] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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May 14, 2020
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  • BFA2010-B.dat
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Sample weight for persons (B_PERWEIGHT)

Data file: BFA2010-B.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 6
Start: 155
End: 162
Width: 8
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 -- TOPICS 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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