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Re: DHS Malawi - domestic violence among women 15-19 [message #2022 is a reply to message #2021] Mon, 14 April 2014 20:21 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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If you use subpop, the subpop variable has to be an indicator variable (0/1). Otherwise, Stata treats everyone with value !=0 of that variable as ==1.

From the help file for svy:

subpop(subpop) specifies that estimates be computed for the single subpopulation identified by subpop, which is

[varname] [if]

Thus the subpopulation is defined by the observations for which varname!=0 that also meet the if conditions. Typically, varname=1 defines the subpopulation, and varname=0 indicates observations not belonging to the subpopulation. For observations whose subpopulation status is uncertain, varname should be set to a missing value; such observations are dropped from the estimation sample.


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