Re: st: standard deviations in svy commands

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

There is a FAQ on this, at 
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/supweight.html.

The short answer is that you can use -summarize- with aweights, or you can 
calculate it from the results left behind by svymean.



--Nick Winter



At 11:02 AM 4/5/2005 -0400, you wrote:

> Hello Stata users --
>
> I am analyzing data that was collected using a clustered, stratified 
> design.  I am using the svy commands in stata to produce descriptive 
> statistics:
>
> svyset [pweight=wt], strata (strat) psu (school)
>
> svymean x1, by(sex)
>
> When using the svymean command, is there any way to produce the standard 
> deviation adjusted for the design of the survey?  I am able to get a 
> standard error, but not the strandard deviation.
>
> Thanks!
> Robert
>
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