Re: st: pweight or fweight?

[Andrea Bennett <mac.stata@gmail.com>]

Thank you so much for your explanation. This helps a lot!

However, I cannot really say much more about the data at the moment,  
only that due to be able to compare my results to another paper which  
uses such an approach I wanted to try it out, myself. But you are  
right, these are supposed to be post-stratification weights. As far as  
I know, the whole sample did already take into account other  
characteristics. There is over-sampling for a handful of state (if I  
remember correctly, this was due to another research group wanting to  
rely on the same data).


Many thanks again!

Andrea


On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Steven Samuels wrote:


> However I have doubts about the utility of this whole effort.  
> Perhaps Andrea will tell us more about the sample and the study and  
> about the reasons for choosing these particular weights.  Why weight  
> for state population, for example, but not for age, gender, or other  
> characteristics.
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