What weights should be used is a major question in survey research. (Photo: Steen Jepsen/Pixabay) Weights are often discussed in the analysis of survey data. As an example, if there are slightly fewer women in our sample than we would expect (based on inf

Survey weights are common in large-scale government-funded data collections. For example, NHIS and NHANES are two large scale surveys that track the health and well-being of Americans that have survey weights. These data collections use complex and multi-

In the next few weeks, I'll be covering more topics related to survey data, like computing your own weights for a survey, doing statistical analyses and visualizing survey data. All posts will deal with R and survey and be example driven. Enough of a