# Person weight in 1991 Census of Argentina.

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**Created:** [May 10, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/person-weight-in-1991-census-of-argentina/1735 "2017-05-10T22:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carla\_Arevalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Carla\_Arevalo](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Carla_Arevalo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/person-weight-in-1991-census-of-argentina/1735/1 "2017-05-10T22:34:00Z")

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Hi,

I am working with various Census of Argentina. I did not have problems with many of them using the variable ‘perwt’ to weight people, but it does not work in Census 1991. I have seen that I must use another variable as person weight, since this census has loads of missings values, but I do not know which is the right variable.

I hope you can help me.

Thank you,

Carla

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**Author:** ![Carla\_Arevalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Carla\_Arevalo](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Carla_Arevalo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/person-weight-in-1991-census-of-argentina/1735/2 "2017-05-10T22:48:00Z")

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NOTE: Roughly half the population lacks data for several important write-in variables, including occupation, industry, birthplace, and previous residence. An alternative weight variable, AR91A434 (WTPERC), properly adjusts the statistics, and it should be applied to any analyses involving the affected variables.