multinational time use study user's guide and documentation

disability or health condition requires more than the standard care a child of thatage might typically require.Value Label0 No1 YesDISAB: Diarist has a disability or long-term limiting health conditionThis variable indicates whether or not the diarist has a disability or long-termhealth limiting condition.Value Label0 No1 YesIt should be noted that the way disability is defined tends to vary across surveys,which may affect the degree of cross-survey comparability. We attempt to ensureconsistency in the coding across time in the same country. Also, where possible,we use health variables and not economic activity status to code this variable(thus allowing users to identify working people with disabilities). When suchdistinctions are not possible, we add a note in the README documentation file.CHAPTER 5: WEIGHTS IN MTUSTime diary analysis requires two levels of weighting. First, as in all surveys,weights are needed to bring the sample in line with the population from which itwas drawn. Second, weights also balance seasonal variations and variations byday of the week.World5.3 and World 5.8 contain the following weights: OCOMBWT: Original weight (population & day preferred, or whatever originalweight is available if not combined); PROPWT: Proposed weight (population & day combined weight rescaled ifneeded) (see below about the rescaling procedure);The World 6 file does not contain weights for two reasons, First, the weights arecalculated at the diary level. Non-response and sample distribution adjustmentscan be addressed at the level of the diary and the diarist. The meaning of an