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| From | Yuval Arbel <yuval.arbel@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Weighted proportion |
| Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2012 01:53:51 -0700 |
Steve, please take a look at Patrick's question: st: zoom on histograms and the links given there by Nick Cox. What Daniel asked in other words is a similar question: how to produce the numerical values from the histogram? On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net> wrote: > At 07:10 PM 10/4/2012, you wrote: >> >> Uhm yes, but that will give me the mean instead of the proportion...? >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM, kantor.d@att.net <kantor.d@att.net> wrote: >> > Have you tried >> > summarize rrace [weight=RWEIGHT] >> > ? >> [...] >> >> > 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. >> [...] > > > Of course, I "misspoke"; I meant tabulate. > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Dr. Yuval Arbel School of Business Carmel Academic Center 4 Shaar Palmer Street, Haifa 33031, Israel e-mail1: yuval.arbel@carmel.ac.il e-mail2: yuval.arbel@gmail.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/