Australia - Weights

Australia - Weights

Wave	LIS unweighted households	LIS weighted households	HWEIGHT descriptives			HWEIGHT*d4 Weighted number of persons	Population Size (*)
Wave	LIS unweighted households	LIS weighted households	Mean	Min	Max	HWEIGHT*d4 Weighted number of persons	Population Size (*)
1981	14,755	5,245.27	0.36	0.10	1.11	15,022.66	15,184,200
1985	7,563	5,224.47	0.69	0.18	1.46	14,093.55	16,018,350
1989	14,450	6,127.94	0.42	0.12	1.16	16,674.96	17,022,133
1995	6,819	6,546,577	960.05	150.00	3,878.00	17,578,428	18,116,171
2001	6,786	7,314,920	1,077.94	166.00	3,624.46	18,747,308	19,357,594
2003	10,210	7,637,697	748.06	141.67	2106.98	19,236,087	19,731,984

(*) Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database

LIS COMMENTS on HWEIGHT: (1989)

Original weight of the family has been divided by 10,000

* NB this defines the unit weight as that of the family containing the family/household head. Other options are either the person, income unit or household weight. The person weight is defined by matching against known age/sex/regional distribution of persons. The other weights are defined by harmonic averages of the person weights.