How reliable are small area estimates when taken for example from regional prevalences to estimate prevalence at district level?
Is there a software or simplified guidance on using small area estimates?
Dear Anonymous 249,
I am not sure whether I understood your questions. is your question to analysis the prevalence for a given small area from a dataset that was conducted at regional level?
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8 years agoDear Kiross,
Yes, the question is about how to estimate the prevalence for a given small area from a dataset that was conducted at regional level.
Thank you
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8 years agoDear Anonymous 249,
I think the following publications are relevant to year question.
1. Small-Area Estimation of Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh
https://www.wfp.org/sites/default/files/Undernutrition%20Maps%20of%20Bangladesh%202012_Technical%20Report_Massey%20WFP%20BBS%20IFAD.pdf
2. District-level Estimates of Institutional Births in Ghana: Application of Small Area Estimation Technique Using Census and DHS Data
http://www.jos.nu/Articles/abstract.asp?article=262341
3. Estimating unmet need for contraception by district within Ghana: An application of small-area estimation techniques
http://dhsprogram.com/publications/journal-details.cfm?article_id=1355&C_id=0&T_ID=1&P_ID=0
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8 years agoDear Kiross,
These are very helpful, thank you
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8 years ago