hi
i have a large data set where the respondendent (woman) was asked
about her siblings)
i am looking at the siblings so have rearranged the data set from
wide to long- each line now represents the sibling of the
respondents
There is a grouping variable for the sibling, alive, dad of cause
'a', dead not of cause'a'
What i would like to do is to do a crosstabl of the grouping
variable by a second variable , e.g type of education (3 or 4
levels), but to adjust the analysis for the fact that where the
respondent had more brothers or sisters there is duplication
(overcounting) in the two crosstab variables
i would like to hear whether the use of the svy commands is the way
to go , especially the use of svytab, the data also has to be
weighted but i have the weighting variable. If svy is the way to
go, how do i account for the multiple counting, the number of times
a sibling can appear ranges from 1 to 15 - i have a variable which
tells me the number of times a record will appear in the data set,
id gp variable
1 1 1
1 1 1
2 3 2
3 2 2
3 2 2
3 2 2
etc
in the above example the first respondent (id =1) has two
brothers/sisters and the second respondent (id=2) only has one
brother / sister
thanks
ann
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ann e fitzmaurice
medical statistician
dugald baird centre
department of obs and gynae
university of aberdeen
[email protected]
tel 01224 553876 (direct)
fax 01224 404925
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