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From | Daniel Almar de Sneijder <dasneijder@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Weighted proportion |
Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:11:48 -0400 |
Dear statalist, Any thoughts on a handy function or command to summarize the weighted proportion? For instance, I have a variable that indicates to which Race a respondent belongs. For example RRACE = 1 if Hispanic RRACE = 2 if White RRACE = 3 if Black RRACE = 4 if Other Additionally I have a variable that weights the respondents (due to oversampling of Hispanic's in my database), call this variable RWEIGHT. Now I want to summarize the weighted proportions of RRACE, i.e. how much % is Hispanic, White, etc. Obviously I can plot a histogram by the command [see below] which will give me an overview of the proportions. histogram rrace [weight = RWEIGHT], discrete width(1) percent My question is: how can I get these proportions into the result window? Thank you! Daniel * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/