Re: st: Dealing with survey data when the entire population is also in the dataset

["Michael I. Lichter" <MLichter@Buffalo.EDU>]

Margo,

1. select your sample and save it in a new dataset, and then in the new 
dataset:
a. define your stratum variable -stratavar- as you described
b. define your pweight as you described, wt = 1/(sampling fraction) for 
each stratum
2. combine the full original dataset with the new one, but with 
stratavar = 1 for the new dataset and wt = 1 and with a new variable 
sample = 0 for the original and =1 for the sample, and then
a. -svyset [pw=wt], strata(stratavar)-
b. do your chi square test or whatever using svy commands, e.g., -svy: 
tab var1 sample-

Michael

Margo Schlanger wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I have a dataset in which the observation is a "case".  I started with
> a complete census of the ~4000 relevant cases; each of them gets a
> line in my dataset.  I have data filling a few variables about each of
> them.  (When they were filed, where they were filed, the type of
> outcome, etc.)
>
> I randomly sampled them using 3 strata (for one strata, the sampling
> probability was 1, for another about .5, and for a third, about .75).
> I end up with a sample of about 2000.  I know much more about this
> sample.
>
> Ok, my question:
>
> 1) How do I use the svyset command to describe this dataset?  It would
> be easy if I just dropped all the non-sampled observations, but I
> don't want to do that, because of question 2:
>
> 2) How do I compare something about the sample to the entire
> population, just to demonstrate that my sample isn't very different
> from that entire population on any of the few variables I actually
> have comprehensive data about. I could do this simply, if I didn't
> have to worry about weighting:
>
> tabulate year sample, chi2
>
> But I need the weights.  In addition, I can't simply use weighting
> commands, because in the population (when sample == 0), everything
> should be weighted the same; the weights apply only to my sample (when
> sample == 1).  And I can't (so far) use survey commands, because I
> don't know the answer to (1), above.
>
> NOTE: Nearly all the variables I care about are categorical:  year of
> filing, type of case.  But it's easy enough to turn them into dummies,
> if that's useful.
>
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
> Margo Schlanger
>
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