Analyzing Census microdata: What weight should you use?

The most recent edition of the Research Data Centres Information and Technical Bulletin written by Georgia Roberts from the Data Analysis Resource Centre at Statistics Canada is now available. In this issue, the author explains how weighted estimation approaches should be used when analyzing data from a long-form census microdata file – in particular, she explains how the weight variables were derived for these files and what weight should be used for different units of analysis. Click here to read it.

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