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Re: st: RE: weight
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Abu Camara <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: weight
Date
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:32:56 +0300
Nick,
You are right the instruction is not the right one. Any other way of
getting what I want.
On 12 October 2011 16:24, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your instructions leave you with no observations with non-zero weights.
>
> The condition -if indicator == 4- selects only those observations for which -indicator- is 4. Conversely, all observations with any other value of -indicator-, 10 or anything else not 4, will be excluded.
>
> It follows that for those observations selected the expression -indicator == 10- will always be logically false and so numerically equal to 0 and so will the aweights be.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Abu Camara
>
> I am tabulating using the following command but the variable
> "indicator" whose code correspond to
> for example "10" is my weight. So the command should use values of the
> variable "value" that correspond to indicator==10 as my weight.
> But I get no output and my output is in fact "no observation". Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> **--command-----.
> table rda year [aweight=indicator==10] if indicator==4, c(mean value) row
>
>
> **-------sample data------------------.
> id country indicator year region ecog oil value
> 11990 Afghanistan FDI Inflows in current USD millions 1990
> ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
> 11990 Afghanistan Net trade in goods and services (BoP, % of
> GDP) 1990 ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
> 11990 Afghanistan Revenue, excluding grants (% of GDP) 1990
> ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
> 11990 Afghanistan External debt stocks, total (DOD, % of GDP)
> 1990 ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
> 11990 Afghanistan ODA Commitments (All Donors), in current USD
> millions 1990 ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34 164.63
> 11990 Afghanistan Net trade in goods and services (BoP, current
> US$) 1990 ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
> 11990 Afghanistan Cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) 1990
> ASIA-8 LDMC-25 Non-Oil-34
>
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Best Wishes,
Abu Camara
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