Re: st: Should rim weights be taken as sampling weights in SVYSET, say?

[Dick Campbell <dcamp@uic.edu>]

This is an example of what is usually called "post stratification." The SVY 
procedures in
Version 9 will handle this. Do -findit postratification- in Stata V9 to 
find a link to a worked example
on the UCLA web site. The help file for -svyset- also contains information 
on post stratification.

At 10:12 AM 6/5/2006, Edmund Ng wrote:

> I have an opinion poll type dataset provided by a market research company. 
> It comes with a weight variable. I was told by their representative that 
> this weight variable is derived by something called "rim weighting" which 
> I am not familiar with from my medical stats background.
Richard T. Campbell
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago



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