Re: st: Quartiles for survey data

["Noori Akhtar-Danesh" <nakhtardanesh@cogeco.ca>]

Thank you Stas, it helps a lot.
Noori
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Noori Akhtar-Danesh, PhD
Faculty of Health Sciences,
McMaster University,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stas Kolenikov" <skolenik@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: st: Quartiles for survey data


> If you don't need the standard errors, you could try [fweight]
> specification of -tabstat- and feed your sampling weights. Most of the
> times, the computation of the point estimates is the same with
> -fweights- and -pweights-, but standard errors are totally different,
> and you really need to know what you are doing with each type of
> weights.
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Noori Akhtar-Danesh
> <nakhtardanesh@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > Could someone help me on calculating quartiles from a survey data?
> > Specifically, I would like to run a command similar to
> > tabstat FVCZDJUI, by(Age2) stat(mean sd p25 p50 p75)
> >
> > with survey data but don't know how.
> > Many thanks,
> > Noori
> >
> > ============================
> > Noori Akhtar-Danesh, PhD
> > Faculty of Health Sciences,
> > McMaster University,
> > 1200 Main St. West, Room 3N28B
> > Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5,CANADA
> > Tel: 905-525-9140 Ext. 22297 & 22725
> > Fax: 905-521-8834
> > http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/faculty_member_akhtar-danesh.htm
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