My guess rather is that there are PSUs with all y's missing. That's OK
for -svyheckman-, as it treats them as valid observations, but
-svyregress- takes them out, and ends up with one PSU per some strata.
Of course there is also a worst case that you've found a bug, and
-svyheckman- should have complained about single PSU, too, but it did
not. My guess would be that the -svy- commands have a common engine
for the variance estimation, and it should provide this error message
for any -svy- command when it runs into a single PSU/stratum problem.
Stas
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:28:53 +0000, Rafa De Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Im estimating a Heckman (1979) selection model using survey data:
>
> svyheckman y x [if], sel(z)
>
> I then estimate a model without correcting for selectivity:
>
> svyregress y x [if]
>
> In the first estimation all the results are reported, however for the
> -svyregress- model, error (460) i.e. stratum with only one PSU detected, is
> reported.
>
> To identify the strata's with single PSU's I did the following:
>
> svydes y x
>
> As well as:
>
> svydes y x z
>
> In both cases Stata highlighted the strata with single PSU's. I can't see
> why -svyheckman- do not face the single PSU problem and carries-on and
> reports the estimations.
>
> I have two guesses. The first one is that while estimating the "first-stage"
> probit in -svyheckman- some strata's are being deleted and these might be
> the ones containing a single PSU, hence when the main equation is being
> estimated, the single PSU problem is no longer there. The second guess is
> that the single-PSU problem is overcomed by the pseudo-maximum likelihood
> method used in -svyheckman-.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rafa
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