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Re: st: pweights in xtiles command are doing the opposite of what I expect them to do
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Michael Boehm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: pweights in xtiles command are doing the opposite of what I expect them to do
Date
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:23:06 +0000
Steve,
Thanks for this nonetheless. Using your example data I figured out
that Stata was doing the "right" thing. The problem was that,
adjusting for response rates in follow up surveys, ELS does in fact
have a sample that is skewed towards individuals who are higher up the
test score distribution in the population. Therefore, the results that
Stata produces are correct.
Thanks a lot for that again,
Michael
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> --
> Sorry, my example didn't represent your data, where the lower ranking group
> has the smaller weight.
>
>
> Michael--
>
> Steve
>
> Steven J. Samuels
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> On Feb 1, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Michael Boehm wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to compute students' quantiles in the cognitive skill
> distribution using their test results reported in a survey, the
> Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS). The ELS oversamples individuals
> who are of less privileged social background, which comes with lower
> test scores. Therefore, individuals should be higher up in the skill
> distribution within the sample than compared to the whole population.
> If I adjust for the survey design, using the inverse probability of
> being selected for the survey, I however get the opposite result. For
> example, I would expect the mean of centil to be below centil1 and
> below 50.
>
> xtile centil = F1TXMSTD if G12COHRT != 0 [pweight = F2F1WT], nq(100)
> xtile centil1 = F1TXMSTD if G12COHRT != 0 & F2F1WT != 0 , nq(100)
>
> summarize centil centil1
>
> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
> centil | 12011 53.20806 28.94271 1 100
> centil1 | 12011 50.48081 28.86572 1 100
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks
> Michael
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