Re: st: one-way tables with survey data

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Hi,

It is a limiteation of Stata 8's -svytab- that it does not do one-way 
tabulations directly.  In version 9, this is supported.

However, this is a minor limitation, because you can create a second 
"variable" that is a constant, and use that as the second variable in a 
two-way crosstabulation.  Like this:

  . generate one = 1

  . svytab myvar one

--Nick Winter

At 06:46 PM 6/13/2005, you wrote:

> 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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