Re: st: centralizing survey data

["Stephan F. Groschwitz" <groschs@email.uc.edu>]

Clive, Austin, and Stas,

thank you so much for your input. Truly amazing. Stas' suggestion to  
use what Stata leaves behind was exactly what I needed. I wondered  
about how to pick up these data before, and now I know! At the point  
on the Stata learning curve I'm on I appreciate all the basics that  
will then help me going more advanced. Clive and Austin, your input  
will keep me busy and learning for the next couple weeks. ;-)

Thanks again,

Stephan

On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Clive Nicholas wrote:


> Stephan Groschwitz wrote:
>
> I have a data set with survey data, and I'd like to centralize a
> couple variables.
> Unfortunately the svy: command does not work with egen varmean=mean
> (var). Is there any other way to pass the weighted means into a
> constant for centralizing purposes?
>
> [...]
>
> Your wish to "centralize a couple variables" implies that you want  
> to de-mean them. If so, Ben Jann's user-written -center- routine  
> should help here. It's available from SSC via the -findit- command.
>
> Clive Nicholas
>
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