st: New package -ipfweight- on SSC

[Michael Bergmann <michael.bergmann@uni-mannheim.de>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -ipfweight- is now available for 
download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -ipfweight- command performs an iterative proportional fitting 
algorithm to create survey sampling weights and contains some additional 
features not available in Nick Winter's -survwgt- command. See the 
description below.

Best wishes
Michael


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package ipfweight from http://repec.org/bocode/i
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TITLE 'IPFWEIGHT': module to create adjustment weights for surveys

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
        ipfweight performs a stepwise adjustment (known as iterative
      proportional fitting or raking) of survey sampling weights to
      achieve known population margins. The iterative process is
      repeated until the difference between the sample margins and the
      known population margins is smaller than a specified tolerance
      value or the specified maximum number of iterations is obtained.
      Additionally, thresholds for maximum and minimum weighting
      factors can be specified as well as a simple replacement of
      missing values.

      Requires: Stata version 10
      Distribution-Date: 20111029
      Author: Michael Bergmann, Universitat Mannheim

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Email: michael.bergmann@uni-mannheim.de
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