st: Using the 2008 American National Election Study with Stata v.11

[Peter Wielhouwer <peter.wielhouwer@wmich.edu>]

Is anyone familiar with using the 2008 NES with Stata? I have two 
specific questions:

1. Which weight command is most appropriate for the data? Based on the 
Stata UG, it seems that the -iweight- syntax is most appropriate, but is 
that correct?

2. In the ANES 2008 user guide, we are advised, "due to the complex 
sample design of the ANES, sampling errors and related statistics 
(including confidence intervals, p-values, t-tests, and all other tests 
of statistical significance) should not be calculated using methods 
intended for simple random samples." In light of this, which would be 
the appropriate statistics to use in Stata?

I am using Stata IC v.11 on Windows XP.

Thank you,

Peter

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