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Re: st: Weighted proportion


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Weighted proportion
Date   Thu, 4 Oct 2012 20:04:42 -0400

I can't find this command, Yuval.  What's the source? And how does it solve Daniel's problem of weighting the data?

Steve

On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Yuval Arbel wrote:

You can also try::

-twoway__histogram_gen varname, generate (h x) frequency-

in which case you will get in the editor two variables (h and x) -
where one of which is the numerical values of the variable and the
other is the frequency

BTW: Somebody asked a similar question a few days ago, and Nick Cox
answered this question

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> What about -tabulate-? this will give you exactly what you are asking for
> 
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Daniel Almar de Sneijder
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Uhm yes, but that will give me the mean instead of the proportion...?
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Have you tried
>>> summarize rrace [weight=RWEIGHT]
>>> ?
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>>> 
>>> ---Original Message---
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> Sent: 10/4/2012 5:13 pm
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: st: Weighted proportion
>>> 
>>> Dear statalist,
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts on a handy function or command to summarize the weighted
>>> proportion? For instance, I have a variable that indicates to which
>>> Race a respondent belongs. For example
>>> 
>>> RRACE = 1 if Hispanic
>>> RRACE = 2 if White
>>> RRACE = 3 if Black
>>> RRACE = 4 if Other
>>> 
>>> Additionally I have a variable that weights the respondents (due to
>>> oversampling of Hispanic's in my database), call this variable
>>> RWEIGHT.
>>> 
>>> Now I want to summarize the weighted proportions of RRACE, i.e. how
>>> much % is Hispanic, White, etc.
>>> 
>>> Obviously I can plot a histogram by the command [see below] which will
>>> give me an overview of the proportions.
>>> 
>>> histogram rrace [weight = RWEIGHT], discrete width(1) percent
>>> 
>>> My question is: how can I get these proportions into the result window?
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
>>> Daniel
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