--- On Sat, 19/12/09, Tomas Lind wrote:
> I have survey data and now I want to compare proportion
> "yeas" in different areas with proportion "yeas"
> calculated over all areas (does this area differ from the
> "superaverage").
A proportion is just the mean of a dummy variable.
So you can estimate those with svy: regress. A
comparison with the overal mean is called effect
coding. This coding scheme is available in -xi3-,
which you can download by typing -findit xi3-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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