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Re: st: svy: proportions vs svy: tab


From   "Austin Nichols" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: svy: proportions vs svy: tab
Date   Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:03:59 -0500

Lawrence Hanser <[email protected]>:
That seems implausible.  Can you provide commands and output?  Can you
duplicate the problem on a publicly available dataset, e.g. by
starting with
 webuse nhanes2
?

On Dec 21, 2007 12:07 PM, Lawrence Hanser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> We're getting slightly different estimates (up to .04) using the svy:
> proportions command vs. the svy: tab command (weighted with p
> weights).  Does anyone know why?  Is one of these methods more
> accurate for computing weighted proportions?
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