Re: st: ratio of 2 different surveys estimates? svyset , suest , fpc , nlcom

[Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Steve--
This works for inference on a population that is the sum of the
populations in each of two years--a strange population for many
purposes.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Steven Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Is this statistically correct..?"
> Yes
>
> Steve
> sjsamuels@gmail.com
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Roman Kasal wrote:
>
> ok, I understand that, I already did this once, but is this
> statistically correct adjusting=combine FPCs of two different surveys?
> What if the FPCs are really very different (this is not mentioned case)?
>
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> Samuels
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> Subject: Re: st: ratio of 2 different surveys estimates? svyset , suest
> , fpc , nlcom
>
> Another way of putting this: When you combine independent surveys, you
> must create a new stratum variable in which the individual original
> strata in each survey appear. You would do this in your data, for
> example by:
> ****************************
> egen stratum =group(year stk)
> *****************************
> If there were 10 strata in 2006 and 10 in 2007, the new stratum
> variable should have 20 levels. Then a single -svyset- statement will
> allow joint analysis of the two surveys, as in my example.
>
> Steve
> sjsamuels@gmail.com
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