You probably need to use pweight, here is a link that explains the difference between fw, pw and aw:
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/computer/presentations/statatutorial/example30.html
regards,
Gaby
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Charles Man@CCR <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Charles Man@CCR <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: PWEIGHT question
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 1:50 AM
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> am new to STATA. I want to know how to use pweight
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> have a small telephone survey dataset of 500 cases which
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