--- fran brittan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset from a survey that over-sampled highly educated
> people. I'd like to weight it so that the data is closer to the
> values in the true population, which I have from census data.
The term you are looking for is post stratification, see:
-findit post stratification-
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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