I want to sample data on the basis of counterfactuals - so what would the
distribution of income in 2007 look like if individuals had the distribution
of health of 1985.
where weight is the sampling weights for the 1985 data (I also have sampling
weights for the 2007 data). The order of the 1985 data makes no difference
to the 2007 data it is just pasted in to obtain the health distribution.
What I want to do is sample from the 2007 data to make the distribution of
health in 2007 look like that in 1985. So I want to draw individuals from
2007 according to the distribution of health in 1985 so I draw individuals
with health=1 with prob=0.4, health=2 with prob=0, health=4 with prob=0.1
and health=5 with prob=5 (where the probabilities comes from the health1985
distribution). This should give me a hypothetical distribution of income in
2007 if the distribution of health was as in 1985.
I cannot see how to do this with the bsample command. Further I am not sure
then how to incorporate the sampling weights to ensure that my samples
correctly represent the population distributions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Yours,
John
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