st: Re: one-way tables with survey data

["R.E. De Hoyos" <red29@cam.ac.uk>]

Steven,

Use the -tab- command with [aweights], this will give you the unbiased 
(factor expansion-corrected) point estimator.

Best,
Rafa
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R.E. De Hoyos
Faculty of Economics
University of Cambridge
CB3 9DE, UK
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd/red29/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven A. Harvey" <sharvey@jhsph.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:46 AM
Subject: st: one-way tables with survey data



> posting it again.  I offer my profuse apologies if somehow it gets posted 
> 3 times--this was not my intention.
>
> I am working with a survey dataset and need to produce frequency 
> distributions for a number of dichotomous variables.  I have defined the 
> dataset as survey data using the standard commands (Intercooled Stata v. 
> 8.2):
>
> svyset [pweight=pesomef]
>
> The svytab command seems only to work with 2-way tables and the regular 
> tab (tabulate, table, etc.) command produces the same result whether or 
> not I define the data as survey data.  I've read through the svytab 
> command documentation several times as well as the documentation for 
> table/tabulate commands and on Stata weights.  Surely I'm missing 
> something, but I can't figure out what.
>
> Could someone please help me with the appropriate syntax to produce a 
> weighted one-way table for these variables?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve
>
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