Re: st: weight

["Friedrich Huebler" <fhuebler@gmail.com>]

Sebastian,

Your survey data should already contain a weight variable. If you tell
us exactly what kind of data you have, a list member may be able to
identify the weight in the dataset.

Friedrich

On 7/3/07, Sebastian Kruk <residuo.solow@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear everybody,
>
> I have a Stata database and a Excell spreadsheet.
>
> In the first one,  I have a survey microdata of households (v.g.
> income, quality of life, poverty, education, employment, housing and
> equipment).
>
> In the second one, I have a excell archive with population
> projections. I will like to use it to compute a weight for a data in
> Stata.
>
> I would like to use the second one to compute weights for values of
> the first one.
>
> How I form groups by ages and then I use a weight by group of age?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebasti�n.
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