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st: iweight and heckman
Hello,
I am using weighted data, but my weights are not integer.
So I cannot use the “fweight’ option.
Therefore I have used the ‘iweight’ option with the estimation of
different regression functions,
notably OLS estimation and Heckman estimation.
And I observe this difference concerning the number of observations:
When using ‘iweight’ within OLS regression, the number of observations
displayed in the ‘Results’ window corresponds to the whole population,
that is the sum of the weights.
When using ‘iweight’ with Heckman procedure, the number of
observations in the ‘Results’ window corresponds to the number of
observations of the unweighted data sample. But the estimated
coefficients in the regression are not the same with or without
‘iweight’ option. So, something is going on when using ‘iweight’
option, but I would like to know why the number of observations
displayed in the window is not the weighted one with Heckman. Although
when using ‘fweight’ (if the weights are integer) with Heckman, the
number of observations corresponds to weighted data.
Perhaps it is this reason: as the weight coefficient I use is not an
integer, when the regression is done over all the observations, the
sum of this weight coefficient is well an integer. Otherwise if we
select a part of the data (what it is done with the Heckman second
step), the sum of weights is no more an integer. Therefore it appears
a little strange for STATA that does not displayed the weighted
observations in the Results window ???
Could anyone give me some details concerning iweight option with the
heckman estimation ?
best regards,
mb magrini
using Stata 10
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Marie-Benoît MAGRINI
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