Survey Weights: A Step-By-Step Guide to Calculation

ISBN-13: 9781597182607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

Richard Valliant; Jill A. Dever

Opis

Survey Weights: A Step-by-Step Guide to Calculation is the first guide geared towards Stata users that systematically covers the major steps taken in creating survey weights. These weights are used to project a sample to some larger population and can be computed for either probability or nonprobability samples.

Spis treści

Overview of weighting. Initial steps in weighting probability samples. Adjustments for nonresponse. Calibration and other uses of auxiliary data in weighting. Use of weights in variance estimation. Nonprobability samples. Weighting for some special cases. Quality of survey weights.