Thank you Martin, Sergiy, and Jeff for your replies.
I got a couple of follow-up questions so I'll try to answer in the order I received them:
1) Martin- I'm receiving an "conformability error" when running the following svy:tabulate variable1, over(variable2). Neither variable has any missing values.
2) Sergiy- Thank you for the recommendation of using svy: tabulate variable1 variable2, col. This will help me to accomplish what I want to do for my analysis.
3) Jeff- Thanks for the follow-up. Because the error came up as "conformability error" I didn't even think to check if the option -over() was valid with the svy: tabulate command. I assumed, and we all know what happens when you assume, that -over() was a valid command and the problem was with the data itself. Changing the error to read "syntax error" would greatly help newbies like myself.
Thanks again for everyone's assistance with this!
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sergiy Radyakin
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: "Conformability Error" when running svy:tabulate using over() option
Hello Jeff,
apparently it was not:
. update query
(contacting http://www.stata.com)
Stata executable
folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata10\
name of file: wmpstata.exe
currently installed: 18 Aug 2009
latest available: 18 Aug 2009
Ado-file updates
folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata10\ado\updates\
names of files: (various)
currently installed: 18 Aug 2009
latest available: 18 Aug 2009
Utilities updates
folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata10\utilities
names of files: (various)
currently installed: 18 Aug 2009
latest available: 18 Aug 2009
Recommendation
Do nothing; all files up to date.
Click to edit automatic update checking preferences
. which svy
C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata10\ado\updates\s\svy.ado
*! version 1.4.5 29feb2008
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jeff Pitblado, StataCorp
LP<[email protected]> wrote:
> Joshua Goetz <[email protected]> is getting a conformability error from
> -svy: tabulate, over()-:
>
>> A Stata newbie, so forgive me if I'm missing something completely easy here.
>>
>> I'm using Stata 10.1 and I'm running into an error when I try the following
>> command:
>>
>> svy: tabulate age, over(job_type);
>>
>> If I run either "svy: tabulate age" or "svy: tabulate job_type" I receive no
>> errors. The weights are defined using svyset [pw=wt] with the wt variable
>> being a float with a min of 10.24 and a max of 294.68. None of the
>> variables, including wt, have missing data.
>>
>> I've used this command before on a number of analysis with no problems and
>> this is the first time I've ran into an issue like this. Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
> I believe this was fixed in the 26aug2008 ado-file update in Stata 10.
>
> Joshua should type the following in Stata:
>
> . update query
>
> then follow the recommendation at the end of its output.
>
> --Jeff
> [email protected]
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