Re: st: Report of weighted cell counts or observations in a survey report

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

�ngel. I agree that displaying the raw counts is important.  I don't  
know a short cut to doing this.

Some suggestions:

1. Create separate tables of cell counts (no percentages)-these take  
little space. You might put them in an appendix.

2. Use a table editor in your word processor to create a table  
skeleton with a small number of cells. Put one Stata table into each  
cell, shrinking the text as needed. This would allow you, for  
example, to put the table of raw counts adjacent to the  weighted  
tables.

3. My personal approach:  I use -collapse-, -egen-, returned results,  
merges, -sorts-, and -format- commands to create data sets of  
statistics, then -outsheet- to text files.  I  manipulate these in a  
text editor using GREP and drop the results into rtf table skeletons.  
The final polishes I do in Nisus Writer's table editor, but you can  
do the same in Word. In this way I've created tables with over 20  
columns, with multiple sections and subheadings. I use Andale Mono  
with font size of 7 or 8 points; this is very readable. The process  
takes a lot of time to set up, but after the initial work, it is easy  
to make modifications. For example, changing the order of super- and  
sub-columns is easy: it's a matter or changing the -sort- and - 
outsheet- order of variables.

-Steve


On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:08 AM, �ngel Rodr�guez Laso wrote:


> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I'm producing a general report (lots of tables and graphs) on the
> results of a survey where weigts were used. Appart from percentages
> and confidence intervals, I would like to add sample sizes, but I'm in
> doubt about reporting weighted cell counts or number of observations
> (unweighted). In principle, I'm for reporting weighted cell counts
> (many readers would dislike than frequencies and sample sizes do not
> match), but number of observations may be very relevant when there are
> very few 'measured' individuals in some cells. Any thoughts about
> that?
>
> In any case, is it possible to make Stata suppres frequencies in
> svy:table when ,obs are asked? (I've found that the option nofreq for
> tabulate twoway is not allowed in svy:tab).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> �ngel
>
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