Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys.
In some surveys, women and men are interviewed separately in selected households, allowing matching of partner information and analyses of couples. Although individual sampling weights exist for men and women, sampling weights specific for couples are rarely derived. We present a method of estimatin...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1447 - 1474 |
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