Re: st: Balancing survey data in Survey package

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

My -survwgt- program, part of the -svr- package on SSC, includes a 
program that does raking.

. ssc desc svr

will lead the way.

--Nick Winter


At 08:05 PM 4/27/2006, you wrote:

> Thursday April 27, 2006
>
> Good morning,
>
> I'm a new user looking for help with the Survey package.  I want to 
> balance (also called raking) an Internet survey to make sample 
> proportions (say for key demographics) agree with Census data.  This 
> is a very common practice that originated with Deming under the 
> title iterative proportional fitting.  I don't see anything that 
> will do this, although I really did expect this very common 
> procedure to be there.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt Paczkowski
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