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Re: Why I am getting different total observations when using iweight for tabulating a variable [message #26571 is a reply to message #26564] Mon, 03 April 2023 08:35 Go to previous message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

With pweight, separately or within svyset, Stata automatically normalizes the weights to have a mean of 1. You did not have to do that with your construction of wgt_shweight_PR.

I have nothing to add to what I said earlier. I don't know why you are using "egen rank" or why you are calculating fractional weights or why you think you should get .5 instead of .4857. I hope someone else can help.

 
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