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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev Perspect. 2015 Oct 22;9(4):256–261. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12151

Table 2.

Demographics and Unweighted and Weighted Percent of Twelfth-Grade Illicit Drug Users, by Target Population and Samples

Demographics
% 12th grade illicit drug users
12th grade nonusers (NU) 12th grade illicit drug users (DU) No weight applied W1 sample weight applied W2 attrition weight applied W2 combo weight applied

N % N %
Target Population - 87.50% - 12.5% 12.5% -- -- --
MTF W1 Sample 45,324 70% 19,515 30% 30% 12.5%1 -- --
MTF W2 Sample 32,549 72% 12,645 28% 28% -- 30%2 12.5%3
1
=[W1 % DU]+[W1 DU sample weight]
  • = [30 %]+[__=]
  • = 12.5%
2
=[W2 % DU]+[W2 DU attrition weight]
  • =[28%]+[1.071]
  • =30%
3
=[W2 % DU]+[W2 DU combo weight]
  • =[28%]+[.446]
  • =12.5%

Notes. Calculations for sample, attrition and combo weights are presented in Table 3