It looks like you are using what are sometimes called "expansion" weights.
Stata handles those properly as pweights. In my humble opinion, one the
great benefits of Stata 8 is that it seems that a lot more commands can use
pweights than was the case in past versions.
Regards,
Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrigo Brice�o [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:09 AM
> To: Statalist (E-mail)
> Subject: st: fweight
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> Hello friends!
> I wish to have a more explicit explanation about weights. I'm using a
> variable called factor to expand the data from the sample that I'm using.
> My
> variable factor have data like 118.54, 99.31, 154.62, etc. Why if I use
> fweight=factor I get an error: may not use noninteger frequency weights
> r(401)? Is this related with the decimals in the observations. If I use
> the
> same variable in a different software (SPSS) I got no errors. Can somebody
> explain what do I need to correct in order to execute procedures in Stata
> with those numbers like factors?
> Thank you very much to all.
>
> Rodrigo
>
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