Re: Create weights from multiple variables

Posted by Kirill Orlov on May 09, 2013; 7:38am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Re-Create-weights-from-multiple-variables-tp5720123p5720124.html

If by "interlocked weights" you mean that you know target proportion for every cell in your Region X Age X Gender table - not just marginal proportions - then it is univariate and not multivariate weighting. You just have to create the single grouping variable with 4 X 4 X 2 = 32 categories and weight this one variable. It is simple weighting and you can calculate the weight correction by hand. Or use for example my macro "weighting groups" (rivita.ru/spssmacros_en.shtml) which performs univariate weighting. I don't know if RAKE extension command performs univariate weighting, probably it does.