AHTUS - Weighting in Stata

TIME USE
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Hello,

I’m trying to estimate means and percentiles for certain time-use variables in the AHTUS across all samples from 1965-2012 using Stata. However, I am not clear on how to use the weightings in Stata to produce estimates by sample: I attempted to use the tabstat command with [pw=xtimewt] but received an error message that pweights cannot be used. I then tried svyset on the data with sampling unit = hhid and again [pw=xtimewt], but again received an error message (this time when using the tabulate command) that I was attempting to create a matrix with too many rows or columns. I’m not sure how to proceed now…any help would be appreciated!

Thank you,

Jacob

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Yes, command line weighting in Stata is a bit limited. I am finding, however, that the svyset command works for me when using your data (extract #1). In particular I key in the following code:

svyset hhid [pw=xtimewt]

svy: tab sex

Therefore, I am not quite able to replicate the error you observe. Perhaps the the error is driven by some other feature of your calculations.

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You might get around your particular error by typing into Stata:
set matsize 1000 , permanently

(or another large number; the default is 400)