Is there any other way to get percentages with proportion estimates?

[Robyn Jones]

Hi all,

I'm using the following code to run some descriptive statistics of my imputed data:

foreach var of varlist socpart contact sex ethnicity education wealth wselfd HHTot {
mi estimate, post i(1/50): proportion mmw2 [pw=scw2wgt], over(`var') percent   //for categorical variables
}

I do not get any error messages but the output does not provide percentages as I had hoped:

Multiple-imputation estimates     Imputations     =         50
Proportion estimation             Number of obs   =      7,803
                                  Average RVI     =     0.0025
                                  Largest FMI     =     0.0042
                                  Complete DF     =       7802
DF adjustment:   Small sample     DF:     min     =   7,746.29
                                          avg     =   7,772.30
Within VCE type:       Robust             max     =   7,787.60

--------------------------------------------------------------
             |                                   Normal
             | Proportion   Std. err.     [95% conf. interval]
-------------+------------------------------------------------
    mmw2@sex |
     0 male  |   .2256078      .0073      .2112977    .2399178
   0 female  |   .1623648   .0057054      .1511808    .1735489
     1 male  |    .265547   .0076934      .2504658    .2806282
   1 female  |   .2385374   .0067366      .2253319    .2517429
     2 male  |   .2137548   .0070817      .1998727    .2276368
   2 female  |   .2194468   .0066042      .2065008    .2323929
     3 male  |   .1283141   .0057886      .1169669    .1396613
   3 female  |   .1609143   .0058514       .149444    .1723845
     4 male  |   .1667764   .0065114      .1540123    .1795406
   4 female  |   .2187367   .0066731      .2056555    .2318178
--------------------------------------------------------------

Is there a way to get STATA to generate these percentages as I have quite a lot of descriptives to do?

Many thanks,
Robyn

[Andrew Musau]

Not sure why you'd expect the proportion command to generate percentages. To convert a proportion to a percentage, multiply by 100. You can do this using a command that exports the results.

[Robyn Jones]

I expected it because it has an option – "percent" – which I used that specifies the proportions be reported as percentages.

[Andrew Musau]

It appears to be a bug with mi estimate. You should report it to Technical Services (https://www.stata.com/support/tech-support/contact/).