Daniel,
I have the programs but they don't allow for -pweight- which is exactly the
option I need to weight my observations.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mueller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: st: RE: survey data and inequality
> > It is quite common to use survey data to compute income
> > inequality and poverty measures. Usually survey data is
> > stratified so that the probability of being surveyed varies
> > across households. The -pweight- and -svy- commands take the
> > "expansion factors" into account, however non of the
> > income-distribution/poverty commands (ineqdeco, inequal,
> > rspread, sumdist or
> > povdeco) allow for the -pweight- option and I don't know how
> > to use them within the -svy- command.
> >
> > How can I use the inequality/poverty commands when I have a
> > stratified survey (the survey already contains the inverse of
> > the probability of being surveyed [expansion factors])?
>
> -findit poverty- and -findit inequality- will point you to several
user-written programs, which might be helpful.
>
> Greetings,
> Daniel
>
>
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