st: Re: st: Can I use “w” intead of “pw” in stata quantiles command?

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

This might answer your question:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/statistics/percentiles-for-survey-data/

Be very careful with the interpretation of your results though, as the
household size is likely different between the wealthy and less well
off. So 20% of the poorest households may very well contain 40% of the
population.

Sergiy

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:17 AM, jayamini <jayamini1987@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I’m working with Household income and expenditure data. I want to find 5
> quantiles of the per capita income.
> I’m using sampling weights.  Eg: Following table represent the example for
> my weights.
>
> Sampling Unit   Weight
> 1       41.42092
> 2       224.9696
> 3       211.7713
> 4       131.9084
> 5       160.3988
> 6       475.2353
> 7       217.6984
>
> First I installed the user written command : ssc install quantiles
>
> Then use following command for my data.
>
> quantiles ym[pw=s_weight], gen(ym_decile) n(5) k(hh_code)
>
> ym – per capita income variable
> ym_decile – new categorical variable
> hh_code – Identifying code for each household
>
> But stata says “pw” not allowed for this command. But “iw” is allowed. So my
> question is Can I use “iw” intead of “pw” here?
>
> Thank You.
> Jayamini – Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka
>
>
>
>
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