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st: Randomly draw from clustered sample


From   "Susan Olivia" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Randomly draw from clustered sample
Date   Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:22:30 -0800

Dear Stata listers,

I am wondering whether it is possible to randomly draw few
clusters from clustered sample in Stata? 

Say my full sample consists of 10,000 observations (with 100
clusters and each cluster has 100 observations). 

I want to randomly draw few clusters with 10 observations in
each cluster. I tried using the 'sample' command, but this
is not doing what I after.  Below is my attempt, it still
gave me 100 clusters. 

Any advice on this, much appreciated. 

Thanks,

Susan

 


. summ

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min 
      Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
      xcoord |     10000    48.35506    27.67569  -1.426747 
 100.8945
      ycoord |     10000    47.60003    27.35285  -.4297747 
 99.15934
  cluster_id |     10000        50.5    28.86751          1 
      100

. preserve

. sample 10, by(cluster_id)
(9000 observations deleted)

. summ

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min 
      Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
      xcoord |      1000    48.36142    27.67134   -.768847 
 100.4548
      ycoord |      1000    47.58521    27.34904   .2530959 
  98.3428
  cluster_id |      1000        50.5    28.88051          1 
      100


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