weights and n-way tabulation

[startz]

I have micro data from the American Community Survey (ACS). Each observation has a weight attached that tells how many people in the population that person represents. Is there a way to do an n-way (or 1-way) tabulation accounting for the weights?

[EViews Glenn]

We have frequency weights built into very few core operations (sorry), but you can often use the by-stats to do what you want. In this case, something like

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series o = @sumsby(freqwgts, byvar)

will get you close. If you let us know what you want to do with the results we might be able to get closer.