I'm not sure what other question you are referencing, but the easy way
to automate comparing the means of variables for two populations
defined by a dummy variable like male (=1 for males and =0 for
females) is to compare the means using a regression framework (I
assume you are using Stata8, since you refer to svymean):
foreach v in var1 var2 etc. {
svyreg `v' male
test male
local p_`v'=r(p)
}
It would not be appropriate to use the above method to compare
proportions, for which you would want something like:
cap gen byte p21=.
cap gen byte p22=.
foreach v in poor old sick etc {
svytab `v' male, col
test p21=p22
local p_`v'=r(p)
}
On 12/27/05, Michelle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I have a similar question to the one about doing a
> ttest after svymean. I would like to compare my
> cross-sectional and longitudinal variables on key
> variables, and would like to compare the means of the
> two samples, using weights. Although I know that I
> need to use svymean followed by test, I'm not sure
> what the test statement should say. Can you please
> help?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
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