You don't explain CPI. I guess consumer price index.
As I understand it, despite a multiplicity of details,
such indexes are just weighted
combinations of a bundle of price variables. Stata
is well up to that, probably using -generate- and possibly
-replace-.
I am puzzled by this question and am probably missing
something. It seems to me that you should just do
the calculations first and then produce the histogram
you want. The weights possibilities for histogram, or
any other kind of Stata graph, are not really intended for
elaborate calculations on the fly.
Nick
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Samu Kurri
> Is there a way to calculate a weighted (CPI) histogram with STATA? I
> have a very large micro data set and I would like to sum up the
> histograms of price changes in each item groups (eg.
> gasoline, bananas,
> computers, cell phone calls) to a single weighted CPI
> histogram. So what
> I need is a command (or a macro or program) that calculates the item
> specific histograms and then weights them up with given item weights.
>
> Or can I save the histograms as tables (data) (instead of pictures)?
> That would allow me to export them and do the weighting in eg. Excel.
>
> I am familiar with the fweights option on histogram command,
> but I think
> it does not suit for my purposes.
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