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RE: st: Using weights from the Current Population survey


From   Lee Sieswerda <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Using weights from the Current Population survey
Date   Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:32:39 -0400

Or Florida, where some votes are more equal than others.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nick Winter [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:29 PM
> To:	[email protected]
> Subject:	RE: st: Using weights from the Current Population survey
> 
> > 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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