Assuming that I need to use weights (perwt or hhwt depending on individual or household income estimates), how do I get those if I cannot use the “sum X, de” command with the SVY option? Thank you!
I have written epctile command that estimates percentiles for complex survey designs; findit epctile should point you to my website.
It is not STATA – it is not an acronym for anything. It is Stata.
Stas Kolenikov
Thanks- I cannot seem to download the package from stata- is there another link/do-file that I can manually run?
This is the prompt I get:
package name: epctile.pkg
from: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/
file http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/ep… not found
could not load epctile.pkg from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/
It’s not on SSC, so your default thinking of ssc install won’t work. It’s on my personal webpage. I said that you need to use findit command that would lead to the right website.
Stas Kolenikov
I did use the findit command, and still no go. You could just paste the link to the response.
I was able to download the package. Can you help make sense of my output (percentiles for income)–What is the format of the results? e(b) etc?
. epctile inctot, p (5 10 25 50 75 90 95) svy valuemask (“00000”)
(running mean on estimation sample)
Survey: Mean estimation
Number of strata = 3342 Number of obs = 1037745
Number of PSUs = 619113 Population size = 19595440
Design df = 615771
Linearized
Mean Std. Err. [95% Conf. Interval]
__000006 -.0490513 . . .
__000007 -.0990513 . . .
__000008 -.0003342 . . .
__000009 -.0008501 . . .
__00000A -2.04e-06 . . .
__00000B -.0001335 . . .
__00000C -.0000524 . . .
Note: missing standard errors because of stratum with single
sampling unit.
estimates post: matrix has missing values