If you want your records to be weighted by the survey weights during the analysis, then use the weights= argument of the glm() function.
Jean On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:04 AM, laura roncaglia <roncaglia.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a beginner user of R. I am using a national survey to test what > variables influence the partecipation in complementary pensions (the > partecipation in complementary pension is voluntary in my country). > > Since the dependent variable is a dummy (1 if the person partecipate and 0 > otherwise) I want to run a logit or probit regression; moreover I want to > run a fixed effect regression since I subset the survey in order to have > only the individuals interviewed more than one time. > > The data frame is composed by several social and economical variables and > it also contain a variable "weight" which is the survey weight (they are > weighting coefficients to adjust the results of the sample to the national > data). > > family pers sex income pension1 10 1 F 10000 12 > 20 1 F 20000 13 20 2 M 40000 04 30 > 1 M 25000 05 30 2 F 50000 06 40 1 M > 60000 1 > > pers is the component of the family and pension takes 1 if the person > partecipate to complementary pension (it is a semplification of the > original survey, which contains more variables and observation (aroun 22k > observations)). > > I know how to use the plm and glm functions for a fixed effect or logit > regressoin; in this case I don't know what to do since I need to take > account of the survey weights. > > I used the svydesing function to "weight" the data frame: > > df1 <- svydesign(ids=~1, data=df, weights=~dfweight) > > I used ids=~1 because there isn't a "cluster" variable in the survey (I > know that the towns are ramdomly selected and then individuals are ramdomly > selected, but there isn't a variable that indicate the stratification). > > At this point I am lost: I don't know if it is right to use the survey > package and then what function use to run the regression, or there is a way > to use the plm or glm functions taking account of the weights. > > I tried so hard to search a solution on the website but if you could give > me an answer I'd be glad. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.