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RE: st: Using weights from the Current Population survey


From   "Nick Winter" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Using weights from the Current Population survey
Date   Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:29:21 -0400

> Lee Sieswerda 
> 
> A better option than using iweight or aweight with -tabulate- 
> is to use
> -svytab- and pweight. It has several advantages, one of which 
> is that gives
> you asymptotic 95% CIs that will not cross 0 or 1 (which is 
> good because you
> can't have less than 0 people enter a survey response, nor 
> more than 100%). 

Except, of course, in Chicago.

_Nick W.
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