st: Re: post-stratification weight

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I'm not exactly sure what you want, but the istdize command calculates 
weighted rates based on a population defined in another file.  You should 
also look at the post-stratification options available in Stata 9 (search 
post stratification and help svyset).  If you don't have Stata 9, you can 
use the population file to calculate the population proportion for each cell 
(race x gender x education x etc..) and then merge these population 
proportions into the sample data file.  You can then construct weights based 
on the sample proportions in each cell divided into the population 
proportions.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arash Mahdian" <amahdian@gmail.com>
To: "statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: st: post-stratification weight



> hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any syntax in which the user can
> input a sample database as well as the population
> tabulation in different dimensions (race, gender, education, ...).
> Then the code assigns the post-stratification weighs to each case in
> the sample database. In other words, now using the weights, the
> tabulation of the database in race, gender, education, .... will give
> the exact percentages of the population.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Arash
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