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Re: st: weights
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Mitch Abdon <[email protected]>
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Re: st: weights
Date
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:26:45 +0800
hi, as maarten suggested, you can use the saved results after -sum-.
try typing "return list" after you run the -sum- command... it will
list all saved results after -sum- and what you need is r(sum), which
you can use as a local macro, eg, gen totincome=`r(sum)'
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Chiara Mussida <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks Maarten, by using sum I get the following:
>
>
> . sum hy020 [w=db090]
> (analytic weights assumed)
>
> Variable | Obs Weight Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
> -------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------
> hy020 | 2481 4012818.04 32078.65 35411.68 -4000 909798
>
> hy020 is the household disposable income. Here I have the weight (= no
> of household represented) and the mean income. How to get a total sum,
> not only for the householdin the sample, but representative for all
> household (=weight)?
>
> thanks
>
>
> On 27 October 2010 11:12, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> --- On Wed, 27/10/10, Chiara Mussida wrote:
>>> I have to generate a variable for the sum of household
>>> disposable income and I must use the available weights to
>>> get the real sum. Anyway the commands gen and egen (for a
>>> sake of clarity I used egen newvar=sum(income)) do not
>>> allow the use of weights.
>>
>> Why not just use -summarize- or -total-? These allow for
>> weights and leave the sum behind in the returned results.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Maarten
>>
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> Chiara Mussida
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> Doctoral school of Economic Policy
> Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)
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