Advice on Raking

[James Galanis]

Note: This is my first ever post. Apologies in advance for any breach of protocol.


Though new to raking, I have extensive experience with post-stratification weights. I am having trouble sorting out the different libraries that might be used. I have multiple factors (e.g. age, income, education at 5, 5 and 4 levels respectively (both in terms of counts and percentages of population). Can anyone provide guidance or code on how to do this with "survwgt rake".

[Phil Bromiley]

You didn't get a quick response. You'll increase your chances of a useful answer by following the FAQ on asking questions - provide Stata code in code delimiters, readable Stata output, and sample data using dataex. I'm not sure what you mean by libraries.

You're using a user-written program. You may need to contact the author for help. I'd also check whether the survey routines provided in Stata will do what you want - they don't appear to do rake but might do something similar.