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Re: st: calculate column sum with survey weights
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Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: calculate column sum with survey weights
Date
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:40:14 -0500
total enrollment [pw=resp_wgt]
Better yet,
svyset ...psu... [pw=resp_wgt], strata(...strata...)
svy: total enrollment
-- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (SSC)
-- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Holod, Aleksandra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Statalist,
>
> I would like to calculate a column total of a variable, but I need to weight the data.
>
> I am currently following this guidance in the Statalist archive: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-08/msg00269.html,
> summ enrollment, meanonly [apply if or in as desired]
> scalar sigma = r(sum)
> di sigma
>
> How can I do this calculation with survey weights? I added the iweight command as shown below, but is there a better way?
> summ enrollment [iweight=resp_wgt], meanonly [apply if or in as desired]
> scalar sigma = r(sum)
> di sigma
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
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