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Activity Number:
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284
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #305750 |
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Title:
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Sampling Weights for Analysis of Couple Data in Demographic and Health Surveys
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Author(s):
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Bryan Sayer*+ and Stan Becker
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Companies:
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Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. and Johns Hopkins University
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Address:
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8757 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20910-3739,
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Keywords:
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sampling weights ; demographic surveys ; survey methodology
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Abstract:
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In demographic and health surveys (DHS) sometimes both women and men are interviewed in selected households allowing matching of partner information and analyses of couples. Typically individual data from such sample surveys have sampling weights which incorporate factors for both the probability of selection and non-response. For analyses of couple data neither the weights for females nor the weights for males is appropriate. We present formula for estimating the appropriate weights from public data and apply these to an example data set of couples (The Dominican Republic DHS of 1996).
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