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Re: st: Re: r(estimate) in svymean.


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To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: r(estimate) in svymean.
Date   Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:12:54 -0500

Ok.
I got it.
It is saved in e(est) macro.
Thanks.



                                                                                                                                           
                      "Michael Blasnik"                                                                                                    
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svymean is an eclass command and leaves it's results in e().  Type -ereturn
list- instead.  The r-class results are probably left behind by a command
executed within svymean.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]


----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: st: r(estimate) in svymean.


> Hi,
> I want to save the results produced by svymean. But I get confused by the
> saved results.
>
> . svyset [pweight=we] ,  psu(a1)
> pweight is we
> psu is a1
>
> . svymean g1_1
>
> Survey mean estimation
>
> pweight:  we                                      Number of obs    =
> 270805
> Strata:   <one>                                   Number of strata =
> 1
> PSU:      a1                                      Number of PSUs   =
> 3267
>                                                  Population size  =
> 1.705e+08
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Mean |   Estimate    Std. Err.   [95% Conf. Interval]        Deff
> ---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------
>    g1_1 |   .0289745    .0033472    .0224118    .0355373    107.8358
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> . ret li
>
> scalars:
>                 r(N) =  270805
>          r(N_strata) =  1
>             r(N_psu) =  270805
>             r(N_pop) =  270805
>          r(estimate) =  .034090951053341
>               r(Var) =  1.21596276679e-07
>           r(Var_srs) =  1.21596276678e-07
>           r(errcode) =  0
>
> My question is why r(estimate) (.034090951053341) is so different of the
> estimate displayed in table (.0289745) ?
> I try this with different variables and datasets and get the same problem.
> Regards.
> Amadou.
>

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