You don't want to use these types of "weights". What you want to do is
standardize wages for sample 2 on the race/gender mix of sample 1.
See a basic demography book for "age standardization", and then
substitute your race/gender categories for age.
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Mandy fu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> To compare wage rates of two samples, I 'll reweight sample 2 using
> sample 1 as the control group according to the gender and racial
> decomposition. The result of reweight will be the gender and racial
> decomposition of sample 2 is close to that in sample 1.
>
> But I'm not sure when I get the calculated "weight" from reweighting,
> as which type of weight I should treat it in following estimation in
> the four types of weights, like analysis weight, important weight,
> frequency weight(I know it should not be probability weight)?
>
> Any comments will be helpful! Thank you!
>
> Mandy
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