Re: st: svy: tabulate or proportions

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

To describe your sample, use ordinary, non-survey, commands.  Survey  
commands are intended to estimate characteristics of the sampled  
population, not the sample itself.   To me, the most important  
descriptor of a sample cell is the number of observations.

-Steve
On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Chao Yawo wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I am using svy commands to analyze a DHS dataset.
>
> As a usual prerequisite, I want to run some descriptive statistics on
> my sample.  I can use the regular tabulate or fre command to produce
> frequency distributions.
>
> However, I realized that svy has a "tabulate" or "proportions" option
> that could produce frequency distributions/estimates per variable.  I
> run both and realized slight differences between the two frequencies
> outputs.
>
> Which one should I use - I am leaning towards using the one with the
> svy: prefix.
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts and pointers.
>
> thanks - CY.
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