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			| Re: Setting up pooled DHS data as panel  [message #2501 is a reply to message #2493] | Mon, 30 June 2014 15:34   |  
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 Dan,
 
 Then I suggest doing the regressions separately and using "suest"* to compute the standard errors of the differences.  That would be the most straight forward.  It works something like this:
 
 eststo: svy: reg Y X if survey==1
 estimates store reg1
 
 eststo: svy: reg Y X if survey==2
 estimates store reg2
 
 suest reg1 reg2
 test X
 
 - that should give you a comparison of the coefficients on X from the two regressions, along with standard errors, and accounting for survey design and all that.  I haven't used this with the "svy" prefix, but I think it should work fine.
 
 Documentation for "suest" here: http://www.stata.com/manuals13/rsuest.pdf
 
 There are of course ways to do it using the pooled data, but I think this might be the simplest, most transparent way and the easiest to get all the weighting/stratification right (because you are only estimating parameters within-survey, and then combining those estimates across surveys and the "suest" command does all the work calculating the "simultaneous (co)variance matrix of the sandwich/robust type".
 
 *I think I called it "sureg" in the previous post - my bad (its because it uses "seemingly unrelated regressions".
 
 
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