Re: st: How to test for equality of variance in data with sampling weights

[Steven Samuels <ssamuels@albany.edu>]

On May 26, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Johannes Metzler wrote:


I am working with household survey data, where the sample is not  
clustered, not
stratified, but has sampling weights. Ultimately, I would like to  
test the
equality of the variance of my labor wage variable...
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Johannes:

Can you please give some more detail about the sampling design?  
Please include information about the target population and sampling  
procedure, whether the same households appeared more than one time in  
the survey, and how the weighting was done. A URL reference to the  
original methodology document, hopefully in English, would be  
sufficient.  If necessary, send the document to me privately.

I have never encountered a houshold survey that was not done in at  
least two stages, and I have never seen a national or regional survey  
which was not stratified in some way.  Without being sure of your set  
up, I am reluctant to try to answer your question.

Steven


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