Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Zambia, 1992

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Reference ID

ZMB_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

University of Zambia, Central Statistical Office [Zambia] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Jan 20, 2021

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Sample weight for persons (C_PERWEIGHT)

Data file: ZMB1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 6

Start: 170

End: 177

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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