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st: -svy: mean- with more than 400 subpopulations


From   Julian Reif <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: -svy: mean- with more than 400 subpopulations
Date   Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:27:30 -0600

I am using the -svy: mean- command to calculate means for two different variables for 432 subgroups of a large survey and appear to be encountering a small bug.  It looks like Stata allows only 400 subgroups for the first variable, and then stores the 401-432 results under the name of the second variable twice (see output table below).  This is not just a display issue; typing -matrix list e(b)- at the prompt confirms that this is how the results are stored in the estimation matrices as well.  If I calculate the mean for only the first variable (i.e., -svy, over(group1 group2 group3): mean var1- instead of -svy, over(group1 group2 group3): mean var1 var2-) then the results are stored correctly.  

I am running Stata 11.1 on Windows XP. 

Julian

. svyset psu [pw=finalwt], strata(stratum) vce(linearized) singleunit(certainty)
. svy, over(group1 group2 group3): mean var1 var2

[OUTPUT TRUNCATED]

--------------------------------------------------------------
             |             Linearized
        Over |       Mean   Std. Err.     [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+------------------------------------------------
var1     		 |
   _subpop_1 |   .2170561     .02307      .1718395    .2622727
   _subpop_2 |   .1973901   .0172478      .1635849    .2311953
   _subpop_3 |   .2355301   .0152678      .2056056    .2654546
   _subpop_4 |   .2178633   .0258603      .1671778    .2685488

[OUTPUT TRUNCATED]

 _subpop_397 |   .1809095   .0799016      .0243045    .3375144
 _subpop_398 |   .1797475   .0431691      .0951373    .2643578
 _subpop_399 |   .1108647   .0274573      .0570492    .1646802
 _subpop_400 |   .1140728   .0378074      .0399712    .1881744
-------------+------------------------------------------------
var2      		   |
 _subpop_401 |   .1220596   .0589177      .0065825    .2375366
 _subpop_402 |   .2157274   .0447505      .1280177    .3034371
 _subpop_403 |   .1552482   .0413938      .0741174     .236379
 _subpop_404 |   .1245167   .0353381      .0552549    .1937784
 _subpop_405 |   .2652598   .0646241      .1385983    .3919213
 _subpop_406 |   .3227641   .0486081      .2274935    .4180346
 _subpop_407 |   .2232845   .0563774      .1127863    .3337827
 _subpop_408 |   .5213186   .0662963      .3913796    .6512576
 _subpop_409 |   .0456947   .0271772     -.0075719    .0989613
 _subpop_410 |   .2182514   .0586816       .103237    .3332659
 _subpop_411 |   .0941627   .0298316      .0356936    .1526317
 _subpop_412 |   .0862663   .0301828      .0271088    .1454238
 _subpop_413 |   .2665844   .0511932      .1662471    .3669217
 _subpop_414 |   .0594012   .0159516      .0281365     .090666
 _subpop_415 |   .2183684   .0927226      .0366345    .4001023
 _subpop_416 |   .1884436   .0212088      .1468749    .2300122
 _subpop_417 |   .1430124   .0431999      .0583418    .2276831
 _subpop_418 |   .1655449   .0323325      .1021739    .2289158
 _subpop_419 |   .1219798   .1190783     -.1114105      .35537
 _subpop_420 |   .3343809   .0653186      .2063581    .4624038
 _subpop_421 |   .2974747   .0662865      .1675548    .4273945
 _subpop_422 |   .2186971   .0443009      .1318686    .3055256
 _subpop_423 |    .248453   .0750676      .1013225    .3955836
 _subpop_424 |   .1507373   .0293883      .0931371    .2083376
 _subpop_425 |   .1264791   .0589568      .0109253    .2420329
 _subpop_426 |   .1943461   .0580817      .0805076    .3081846
 _subpop_427 |    .048906   .0251299     -.0003479    .0981599
 _subpop_428 |   .1955444   .0570189      .0837888    .3072999
 _subpop_429 |   .1472326    .026584      .0951287    .1993364
 _subpop_430 |   .2944994   .0681236       .160979    .4280198
 _subpop_431 |   .3005097   .0592136      .1844525    .4165668
 _subpop_432 |   .2941677   .0757431      .1457133    .4426222
   _subpop_1 |   .2737736   .0243363      .2260751    .3214721
   _subpop_2 |   .2566782   .0189196      .2195962    .2937602
   _subpop_3 |   .2863156   .0159561      .2550421    .3175891

[OUTPUT TRUNCATED]

 _subpop_429 |   .2308088   .0369137      .1584589    .3031587
 _subpop_430 |    .337545   .0700012      .2003444    .4747456
 _subpop_431 |   .3898697   .0618927      .2685617    .5111777
 _subpop_432 |   .4168595   .0767432      .2664447    .5672742
--------------------------------------------------------------
Note: strata with single sampling unit treated as certainty
      units.



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