Question:
A graduate student has asked me where to find the survey weights for the CCHS 2015: Nutrition Component, Food and ingredient details. In particular she’s interested in weighting the FIDDCON variable (Location of food consumption). There is no survey weight variable for the ‘Food and ingredient details’ section of the CCHS on ODESI. Variables often used for developing a sample/constructing weights were collected in the CCHS (age, gender, geography) and there is a Weights variable for the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2015-2016: Annual Component on ODESI, but age/gender/geo are not part of the ‘Food and ingredients details’ data set in which FIDDCON is included. I don’t see a ‘key’/common variable that could connect the weights from the Annual Component dataset to the Food and ingredients details data set. I’d appreciate any help figuring out how to obtain the survey weights for this part of the survey, or help understanding what I am missing about how survey weights are used.
Additionally, I’ve been reading through the documentation for CCHS2015 and having a hard time reconciling the various components and timelines and the numbers of respondents to each part of the survey. If there’s someone on the list who is relatively familiar with this survey, I’d love to have a 30-minute phone chat about it, please just let me know a couple of times you’d be available this week or next.
Answer:
I’ve received the following response from subject matter:
“The survey weights are found in the HS file. The researcher will need to merge the FID file with the HS file in order to apply the survey weights.”
