Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005

Sierra Leone, 2005
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

Central

Statistics Sierra Leone, UNICEF Sierra Leone

CSV JSON

Children's sample weight (chweight)

Data file: ch

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 6

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 1.206914

Format: Numeric

Weighted: Yes

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Recoded variable

Description

Universe

Children aged 0-4

Source of information

Sample is not self weighting. Variables constructed for analysis

Imputation and derivation

Imputation

Sample weights are added to the files by using the spreadsheet weights.xls and the SPSS programs weights_table.sps, weights.sps and weights_merge.sps. All these files can be found in the data processing sub-folder. The spreadsheet is used to calculate the sample weights. It has two worksheets, calculations and output. The calculations worksheet performs the calculations. The output worksheet contains only the sample weights and a list of cluster numbers; this format is useful for reading the data into SPSS. The program weights_table.sps produces data needed for calculating the sample weights. The program weights_merge.sps adds the appropriate sample weights to the analysis files. The program weights.sps, which you will never directly execute, describes the structure of the data in the output worksheet.