svyset-weight

[Dayla Spassio]

Good day,
On the basis of this information:
"The variable WEIGHT includes the sample weights at household level for the whole sample. The weights system has been calibrated to information on: gender, age group (under 18, from 18 to 44, from 45 to 54, from 55 to 64, over 64), geographic area (North, Centre, South and Islands) of the population."

the command below is correct?

svyset id [pweight=WEIGHT]

id= the individual household identifier

Thank you!
Best

[David Radwin]

Unfortunately, nobody can reliably answer this question for you because we don't know what the dataset is nor any of its characteristics (particularly how the data were sampled and how the weights were constructed). Please read the documentation that accompanies the dataset or contact the provider if that information is not available.

Once you have that information, it is a good idea to compare a few estimates and their associated standard errors (created by you in Stata) to published values to ensure that they match exactly. If they don't match, your code is probably not correct.