Posted by
Maguin, Eugene on
Sep 12, 2014; 3:11pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Question-on-Weighting-tp5727231p5727232.html
I believe that to weight the dataset to the sample size, the population weight for each record must be divided by the sum (not the mean) of the population weights.
You probably have already done so but if not, you should read the weight command documentation very carefully.
Gene Maguin
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Subject: Question on Weighting
Hello,
I think that I might be doing some analyses incorrectly; I've been using weights, which have averaged over 1 (they are based on volumes/response counts). In SPSS, are these interpreted as frequencies? If so, I believe that I've been falsely inflating the significances. Should I normalize the weights (divide by the mean, so that the new average is 1)?
Thank you very much,
Barry
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