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Re: st: Weighted proportion


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Weighted proportion
Date   Sat, 6 Oct 2012 17:30:26 -0400


What's the study design and purpose, Daniel?

Even if you don't have survey sample data, you can use
 -svy: tabulate- 
*******************************
sysuse auto, clear
svyset _n [pw = trunk]  
//_n means primary sampling unit is individual observation
svy: prop rep78  // no need for [pw = ] option
svy: tabulate rep78, se ci
svy: tabulate  rep78 foreign, col se ci 
*************************


If you _do_ have survey sample data, then
-svyset- according to the design.

Note that 'pw' = 'probability weight', which
reflects probability of selection and, informally,
is the number in the population represented by each
sampled observation.  

Steve

On Oct 5, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Daniel Almar de Sneijder wrote:

Thank you all guys.

prop RRACE [pweight = RWEIGHT] and
tabulate RRACE [weight = RWEIGHT]

are both what I am looking for. 
Thank you,
Daniel



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve, please take a look at Patrick's question:
> 
> st: zoom on histograms
> 
> and the links given there by Nick Cox.
> 
> What Daniel asked in other words is a similar question: how to produce
> the numerical values from the histogram?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, David Kantor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At 07:10 PM 10/4/2012, you wrote:
>>> 
>>> Uhm yes, but that will give me the mean instead of the proportion...?
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Have you tried
>>>> summarize rrace [weight=RWEIGHT]
>>>> ?
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>>> Dear statalist,
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts on a handy function or command to summarize the weighted
>>>> proportion? For instance, I have a variable that indicates to which
>>>> Race a respondent belongs. For example
>>>> 
>>>> RRACE = 1 if Hispanic
>>>> RRACE = 2 if White
>>>> RRACE = 3 if Black
>>>> RRACE = 4 if Other
>>>> 
>>>> Additionally I have a variable that weights the respondents (due to
>>>> oversampling of Hispanic's in my database), call this variable
>>>> RWEIGHT.
>>>> 
>>>> Now I want to summarize the weighted proportions of RRACE, i.e. how
>>>> much % is Hispanic, White, etc.
>>> [...]
>> 
>> 
>> Of course, I "misspoke"; I meant tabulate.
>> 
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