National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Data (NIST StRD) certification for complex survey sample data?

[David Radwin]

Dear Statalisters,

As you may know, estimates from Stata are certified for numerical accuracy using National Institute of Standards and Technology Standard Reference Data (NIST StRD), as described at http://www.stata.com/support/cert/nist/ .

Do you know of similar data or methods for testing the accuracy of estimates using complex survey sample data that would use Stata's svy suite of commands?

David

[Andrew Lover]

Not quite NIST-level, but if it's critical I'd be tempted to reproduce estimates from a DHS dataset. It would at least suggest results are consistent between Stata and (S*S) for complex designs, and if anyone has it together it's DHS for this....

http://http://dhsprogram.com/data/

[David Radwin]

Thank you Andrew. These datasets seem to use PSU and strata settings, but what I would really like would be dataset that uses BRR variance estimation. These data exist, of course (e.g., webuse nhanes2brr), but something more official would be helpful.

David