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st: problem of stratum with only one PSU


From   Deepankar Basu <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: problem of stratum with only one PSU
Date   Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:07:08 -0500

I am working with Stata 8. While testing for the equality of means with
survey data using:

.svymean alive, by(sxch)

I run up against the very common problem of several strata with
singleton PSUs. As suggested in the Stata FAQ
(http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/stratum.html), I can deal with
this problem by:

.svydes alive 
(to identify the strata with singleton PSUs; for example let us say that
strata 10 has a single PSU)

. list strata psu if strata==10
(to identify the corresponding observations; say the observations are
110 to 154)

. drop in 110/154

I am working with data from several countries (about 70) and I want to
avoid doing this manually for all the countries; doing this manually
would take me several days. Can somebody suggest how to write a do file
that reads the dataset for each country and:
(a) identifies all the strata with singleton PSUs;
(b) identifies the corresponding observations (for the above strata) and
drops those observations.

Deepankar


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