Tables, Sig Testing & Weighting Question

Posted by Valdiserri, Colin on Mar 29, 2007; 4:06pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Tables-Sig-Testing-Weighting-Question-tp1074784.html

Hello everyone,

 

I have a question about using the tables function on a weighted data set
and significance testing. When running tables we typically significance
test in tables, but we are working with a data set that is weighted and
what we need to do is a little different.

 

We need to run tables weighted to get the weighted percentages, but we
need to significance test without the weight. This might sound odd, but
I can explain it more detail if needed.

 

The only way we can figure out how to do this is to run tables weighted
and then manually significance test with the unweighted sample sizes
using an Excel program we wrote.

 

Does anyone have any direction whether or not we can have SPSS Tables to
all of this for us so we do not have to add an additional step of manual
significance testing? So basically we would need Tables to give us the
percentages using the weight and then significance test those
percentages using the unweighted sample sizes.

 

Please let me know if you need further clarification for this question.

 

Thank you,

 

Colin

 


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