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Re: st: AW: creating variable from svy: proportion
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: creating variable from svy: proportion
Date
Mon, 3 May 2010 08:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Mon, 3/5/10, Guy Grossman wrote:
> sorry for not being sufficiently clear. using the official example at
> I wish to create a variable which is equivalent to the
> proportion of female by race at the county level. meaning all the
> observations within the same county will receive the same value of this
> proportion.
The easiest way is probably to use -regress- on your dummy variable,
followed by -predict-. A proportion is nothing other than the mean
of an indicator variable, so that is why you can use -regress-, and
-regress- allows the -svy- prefix.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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