Hi Steve,
My weights are integers.
Holly
-----Original Message-----
From: sjsamuels@gmail.com [mailto:sjsamuels@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:18 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: distribution curve with svy
--
Frequency weights (fweights) must be integers, but your survey
weights probably are not in general To convert the survey weights to
proportional frequency weights equivalent to two decimal places (which
should be more than enough):
gen fwt_new =round(100*pwgt,1)
and use that for your fweight.
I
-Steve
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Holly Kosiewicz<HKosiewicz@epe.org>
wrote:
> I know Stata is a bit finicky at times, but I just eliminated the
space and Stata is still telling me I am using invalid syntax. The space
is not the problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Weiss [mailto:martin.weiss1@gmx.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:42 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: distribution curve with svy
>
>
> <>
> No blank after -gen-! Just " gen(incdrop)"
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Holly
Kosiewicz
> Sent: Dienstag, 8. September 2009 20:28
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: distribution curve with svy
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks very much for your help. It seems as though this command may
work.
> Unfortunately, when I type "cumul pincp if dropout==1 [fweight=pwgpt],
gen
> (incdrop)", stata tells me I am using an invalid syntax. It seems as
though
> I am following the syntax given in the help window for cumul so I
can't tell
> where Stata is finding the error.
>
> Any thoughts?
--
Steven Samuels
sjsamuels@gmail.com
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