Re: st: Obtaining population estimates for multiply imputed survey data

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 09:09 PM 5/13/2012, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
> I'd say this is an oversight. There's nothing special to -total- that
> would make it terribly different from other commands, so you should
> just proceed with -cmdok- option of -mi estimate-.
Support for -total- was added in version 12. It does seem odd it 
wasn't supported before. Perhaps it could be double-checked against 
the -means- command to make sure it will work ok in Stata 11.

> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Lauren Pollack
> <lauren.pollack@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using Stata 11.1 and trying to obtain population estimates for
> > multiply imputed survey data. My data is mi set and I am analyzing it
> > using the mi commands. It is survey data, so it is also svyset. I can
> > see that mi commands allow one to obtain proportions, ratios, and
> > means for survey data using the command structure "mi estimate: svy:
> > [proportion/mean/ratio]" but the command I really need to use is "svy:
> > total", to obtain population estimates. This is the command I use to
> > obtain population estimates for non-mi data. Is there any way to do
> > this using the mi commands? It's not listed as a supported command,
> > but I have to imagine there is some way of obtaining population
> > estimates for multiply imputed survey data.
> >
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