OLS on survey data

[Patricia Ali]

Dear All,

I have run an ols model on survey data. Is it possible to perform a robustness check.

svy: reg y x1 x2, robust is not working. Would anyone suggested another command?

Thanks

[Phil Bromiley]

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The regress documentation says you use vce(robust) not just robust.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

I'm fairly certain vce(robust) as an option for -regress- does not work with -svyset- data using the -svy:- prefix. The reason is because the declaration of -svyset- will specify it's own method of variance estimation, such as the Taylor series linearized method.

[Patricia Ali]

Thank you Leonardo, you are right it did not work. Many thanks