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Re: st: Loop over variables with svyset


From   "Stas Kolenikov" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Loop over variables with svyset
Date   Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:45:47 -0600

how about this:

* cycle over years
forvalues year = 1/7 {
  * svyset for that year
  svyset [pw=weight`year']
  * cycle over the variables
  foreach x of varlist Q*_0`year' {
    svy: tab `x'
  }
}

You might also want to put some -quietly- and -noisily- statements in
places, and may be figure out more of the TeX-related Stata commands.
I am sure there is a way to put the tabulators & and \\ in proper
places from within Stata, but I've never done this with tables, only
with estimates using -estout-.

On 11/18/08, Daniel Schultz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hej stata user....
>
>  Maybe this question is too easy for you, but i am kicking it around
>  since a week ore so and couldn't find a proper solution.
>
>  I have a dataset with 1200 variables of a survey. This survey was held
>  over a couple of years. What I want to do is extracting a codebook of
>  the dataset.
>  Therefore every variable should be tabbed according to their surveyweight.
>  The variable structure looks like this:
>
>  Q0001_02
>  Q0001_07
>  Q0002_02
>  Q0002_03
>  Q0002_07
>  etc.
>
>  Were the extension _0X indicates the year and the Prefix Qaaaa
>  indicates the question number, which is the same over the years.
>  Since I need the tables afterwards in an extrenal program (LaTex) all
>  the Variables should be proceed in the correct order.
>
>  The problem is, that not every question was asked in every year, that
>  I really need to change the  survey weight after every variable for
>  the new variable, depending on the extension. I tried a lot, but
>  couldn't get a proper solution.
>
>  For only one Variable the syntax should be as followed:
>
>  svyset Q1170_02   *this is the weight variable
>  svy:tab Q0001_02
>
>  I tried to build a loop based on this, but all my tries didn't work.
>  Maybe one of you has an idea. That would be great.
>


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Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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