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Re: st: need help with svymean


From   Deepankar Basu <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: need help with svymean
Date   Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:02:18 -0500

Please ignore the earlier message; there was an error in the code.

Deepankar

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:55 -0500, DEEPANKAR BASU wrote:
> I am working with survey data on Stata 8. In the dataset observations are by family and I have complete birth history for each family. I want to compute the sex ratio at birth for a chosen cohort.
> 
> 
> 
> /*------ DETAILS OF SURVEY DESIGN---------*/
> gen strat = v022 
> gen psuid = v021 
> gen smpwt = v005/1000000
> svyset [pweight=smpwt], strata(strat) psu(psuid) 
> 
> 
> /* yob1 gives the year of birth for child 1 */
> /* yob2 gives the year of birth for child 2 */
> /* ------------------------------------ */
> /* yob18 gives the year of birth for child 18 */
> 
> /* - CREATING THE BIRTH COHORT: 1995-20 - */
> gen id = _n
> reshape long yob, i(id) j(birth)
> drop if yob<1995
> drop if yob>2000
> reshape wide
> 
> /* ---------------------------------------- */
> /* GETTING SEX OF CHILD: MALE=1; FEMALE=0    */
> /* sxch1 gives the sex of child 1; and so on... */
>  forval i=1/18 {
>    quietly gen sxch`i'= cord`i'-2 if cord`i'==2
>    quietly replace sxch`i'= cord`i' if cord`i'==1
>  }
> 
> 
> reshape long sxch, i(id) j(birth)
> svymean sxch
> 
> I get the error message "no observations" after the last command. What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Deepankar 
> 
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