st: -svyset-, weights, and NLSY

[Mike Lacy <Michael.Lacy@colostate.edu>]

Greetings,

I'm working with the NLSY (National Longitudinal Study of Youth 
http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy79.htm)  and trying to make appropriate 
allowances for the complex survey design, taking into account both 
weighting and the sample design structure.

To make a long story short, the documentation on this is pretty 
terse, and practices in the literature are a bit dicey (e.g., using 
weights but ignoring sample structure or design effects; ignoring 
weighting and sample structure completely).   I'm discovering that 
it's a pretty good piece of work to figure out what to do from the 
sample design documentation, so I'm taking a stab here hoping someone 
in the Stata community might have have worked with the NLSY and 
--svyset- and be willing to share some code.  I suppose this might be 
of sufficiently limited interest that a response off list might make 
more sense.

Regards,


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Mike Lacy, Assoc. Prof.
Soc. Dept., Colo. State. Univ.
Fort Collins CO 80523 USA
(970)-491-6721   


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