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Re: st: RE: Applying weights to Survey Data
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Re: st: RE: Applying weights to Survey Data
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Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:40:04 +0000
I think you meant to say "working WITH survey data"
I often make similar mistakes in an informal setting as well (especially when typing on my blackberry).
Ty
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From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:56:57
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Reply-To: [email protected]: st: RE: Applying weights to Survey Data
You don't say how these weights are calculated, so it is difficult to advise. But as the documentation does tell you, frequency weights must be positive integers, so they are certainly not fweights.
You should check out the -svy- documentation.
By the way, although perhaps just used informally, the wording "a data" meaning "a dataset" wouldn't get past me if I read it in a draft presented to me as teacher, supervisor, reviewer or editor. I don't regard it as acceptable technical English.
Nick
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ajjee
I am working on a survey data in which weights are given for each
respondent. Now I am confused how to apply thses weights in the -logit-. My
data looks like:
cnty id wt trd edu sex age inc
FRA 6407 0.7749 F 16 MALE 18 .a
FRA 7026 0.0964 F 18 MALE 34 +
FRA 6309 0.5040 F 17 FEMALE 25 +
FRA 5430 0.5331 A 17 FEMALE 33 -
FRA 5106 0.9501 .b 14 FEMALE 83 -
FRA 6717 1.1677 F 18 MALE 48 +
FRA 6813 0.8413 .b 20 FEMALE 35 -
FRA 5185 1.3552 F 18 MALE 43 +
FRA 6045 1.0003 F 23 MALE 23 -
FRA 5954 2.0298 F 14 FEMALE 59 +
FRA 6754 0.8034 A 17 MALE 31 .a
FRA 5748 0.8631 F 23 MALE 40 -
FRA 6209 0.9786 A 17 MALE 30 +
FRA 6120 1.1140 F 20 FEMALE 23 -
GBR 6181 0.7317 A 23 MALE 40 +
GBR 6267 0.7213 F 25 MALE 23 .a
GBR 5223 0.9928 .b 20 MALE 31 -
GBR 6670 1.1046 A 22 FEMALE 25 +
GBR 5435 1.4809 F 25 FEMALE 78 +
GBR 5931 1.4809 .b 16 FEMALE 63 .a
GBR 5219 0.4395 F 18 FEMALE 53 +
GBR 5130 1.0084 F 23 FEMALE 50 -
and my regression is
logit trd edu sex age inc,cl(cnty). Should I use (fweigt=wt) or (aweight=wt)
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