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Re: st: AW: creating variable from svy: proportion
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: creating variable from svy: proportion
Date
Mon, 3 May 2010 11:19:41 -0400
Guy Grossman:
Try also:
webuse nhanes2, clear
svy:tab region heartatk, row ci
ssc inst _gwtmean
egen m=wtmean(heartatk), by(region) weight(finalwgt)
ta region, sum(m)
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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.
>
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