Re: st: Generating weighted percentages

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 01:31 PM 2/8/2006, Rijo John wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to find the weighted percentage of people owning a car across
> different income groups. I have an id variable (id_var) for each
> individual and an indicator variable denoting their income status and
> another variable denoting their expenditure on car. If the expenditure
> is 0 it is recorded as missing value and it would mean that the person
> doesn't own a car.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but wouldn't it be easier to create a 
dummy var for ownscar (0 = does not own, 1 = does own) and crosstab 
it with income?  Or, if you prefer, code it 0 and 100, and get the 
mean by income category?


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