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"pweights or sampling weights, are weights that denote the inverse of
the probability that the observation is included because of the
sampling design."
HTH,
Joao Lima
2010/4/15 Mónica Guadalupe Chávez Elorza <[email protected]>:
> I am using Stata 11.0 to analyze the Current Population Survey.
> Specifically, weights on this survey are nonintegers, therefore when
> using frequency weigths - fw=marsupwt- sends the following message:
> may not use noninteger frequency weights.
>
> I came out with two options, but which should I used? and Why?
>
> 1. To use the importance weight -iw=marsupwt-, which allows the use of
> noninteger values, or
> 2. To generate a new weight, rounded to the nearest integer and that
> for those values that are negatives, values are set to zero.
>
> Any recommendations about the use of either option? Thanks!
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