st: Survey question

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

  I am embarrassed to ask this question, but I just want to be extra 
sure that I am on the right track.

  We have a sampling frame of people (a list of say 7000 people) and we 
are going to sample of say 300 of them. All people in the sampling frame 
will have an equal probability of being selected.

  Assume that we do not want to compute "totals" (i.e, counts, 
frequencies) in the population, and just focus on things like 
percentages, means, and estimation commands (like regress). In such a 
case, is there any need or benefit to calculate -pweights- and use the 
-svy- commands?

Many thanks,

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