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  • Sampling issue: constructing weights to take into account sampling procedure?

    I have a question on how to deal with the following sampling problem:
    I have administrative data from different regions of a country, so in principle I observe 100% of the population in each region.
    However, for one large region X, I only have a random sample which covers 50% of the population with income below the 10th decile but 100% of the population belonging to the 10th decile of the income distribution.
    For my analysis, I need to pool all the different regions.

    My question: How do I take into account the sample construction in region X? Can I construct fweigths (observations for those below the 10th decile would get a weight of 2, everyone else gets a weigth of 1)? Or is there a better way to do this?

    Help is highly appreciated!

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    I would be tempted to look at the survey tools which explicitly allow for partial samples.

    A big question about region X is whether the data are randomly sampled or not. It is clear that are not. You probably have a sample selection problem and need to look at Heckman estimators.

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