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Construction of Weights
The post-stratification ratio adjustment method was used by STATIN to construct
weights for the sample estimates in this survey, thus bringing them in line with
the Jamaican youth population in 2004. The 2001 Population Census data were
used as the starting point. These figures were adjusted to the 2004 population estimates
using the average growth rate for the three-year-period. Parish, age and gender
variables were then included in the construction of the weights to address the
differences in the population distribution. (See Table 1.3)
Table 1.3: Distribution of Youth by Category and Parish, 2004
Parish
In
School
Not
Working
Employed
Self
Employed
Total
Kingston 7 076 7 517 3 185 1 440 19 218
St. Andrew 39 807 37 577 19 025 6 588 102 997
St. Thomas 5 609 7 150 2 812 409 15 980
Portland 5 734 5 456 2 304 254 13 748
St. Mary 8 154 7 798 2 438 481 18 871
St. Ann 13 364 14 190 3 162 0 30 716
Trelawny 5 577 3 862 2 562 634 12 635
St. James 11 232 10 662 8 060 2 413 32 367
Hanover 4 378 3 778 3 043 297 11 496
Westmoreland 9 035 8 082 5 503 1 981 24 601
St. Elizabeth 9 728 9 037 4 359 2 685 25 809
Manchester 13 864 10 092 6 653 3 916 34 525
Clarendon 19 195 19 212 4 150 1 907 44 464
St. Catherine 33 353 39 205 13 561 3 221 89 340
Jamaica 186 106 183 618 80 817 26 226 476 767
Information Processing
During and after the fieldwork, appropriate forms and procedures for the management
of the data were designed. The questionnaire was pre-coded for the most
part. There were several open-ended questions however, that required coding. For
this exercise to be consistent, special coding sheets were developed for each open-
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