I think Lees Sieswerdas reply helped me. Thanks a lot ! Reason for
using population size ? Basically I just wondered, where stata "svy"
output took the population size from (Second I need it for weighting
purposes).
Kind regards
Daniel
On 17 Jul 2002 at 13:08, Richard Goldstein wrote:
> Unless you want to make a finite population correction, and even that
> needs some justification, I see no reason for including the population
> size; maybe you could tell us why you want to include the population
> size and that would help us answer you.
>
> Rich
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > Dear Statalist
> >
> > I'm new to stata and am working with survey data. Can anyone tell me,
> > how I can tell stata the population size from which my sample is drawn
> > ? I couldn't find it in the svy... commands and all examples show
> > population size = ... , but it is never written as an input in a command.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Daniel
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