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Re: Aggregating household level data [message #10400 is a reply to message #10394]

Mon, 25 July 2016 17:59

Reduced-For(u)m
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It looks to me like you are telling Stata to treat your categorical variable as a continuous variable. If you want to keep each individual occupation, you'll need to create a separate dummy variable for each occupation, and then when you collapse those you will have a proportion of the population with that occupation in that cluster. If there are too many different groups, you'll probably need to combine them in some way.

But right now I think you are just getting a meaningless number because you are treating the variable value of, say, "4" as the number 4 and not as "occupation group 4." So those numbers below are meaningless.

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