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Re: st: Survey question
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Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Survey question
Date
Tue, 4 May 2010 13:11:56 -0500
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Michael Norman Mitchell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
Even if you use SRS, there's still a small gain in precision because
of the finite nature of the population captured by the finite
population correction, 1-300/7000. (If you sampled 7000 out of 7000,
your uncertainty will be zero, which is what the fpc is reflecting,
among other things.) You don't need anything at all for this, just
svyset, fpc(7000)
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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