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> I am trying to estimate median of subpopulations using
> survey data. My
> question is how to account for the survey weight in estimating
> median.Specifically, I am using the following command
> egen median=median(edpct) if salquart==3, by(type).
> How can I incorparate the survey wieghts in using
> egen(median) funtion to
> calculate median in above command?
I can't answer the -svy- aspect, but I
am pretty clear that -egen- and weights
don't mix well. That is, official Stata
functions don't support weights, so this needs
to be done in some other way.
Nick
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