You are correct in your guess. -egen- does not support weights of any
kind and it does not support -svy:-, or vice versa.
More positively, your example implies a single mean, so -svy: mean-
should work. The result will be a constant, so no need to think that
you are creating a new variable.
Nick
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:16 PM, HUANG, LILING <HUANGL@mailbox.sc.edu> wrote:
> I would like to creates a new variable that contains survey weighted mean estimates of one variable. The egen command does not seem to support such a function. Could you please let me know how to get this resolved?
>
> . egen meanrank = svy:mean(rank) if x==1 & y==1 & z==1
> unknown egen function svy:mean()
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