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Step 3 Using the household weights
Suppose you were interested not in the number of people living on farms, but in the number of
American households that were on farms. In other words, you want a count of farms, not people.
To get this statistic you would need to use the household weight
In order to use household weight, you should be careful to select only one person from each
household to represent that household’s characteristics. Use SPSS to select the first person from
each household (cases where PERNUM=1).
SPSS Instructions: In the Data Editor, pull down the Data menu and choose “Select Cases”. In
the window that pops up, select the second button, labeled “If condition is satisfied”. Click the
“If” button, and type “pernum=1” in the upper right-hand corner of the window that pops up.
Press “Continue” and “OK”. All cases where pernum is not equal to 1 should now have a slash
by them in the Data Editor.
As you did in Step 1 above, you first need to confirm that there are enough farm households to
get reliable results. Produce a frequency table of the farm variable
How many households in the sample were on farms?
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As you did in Step 2 above, you need to apply the household weight variable (HHWT) to get
fully reliable statistics.
Using the household weights, how many American households lived on farms in 2000?
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GLOS5900, Sec.002: Work, Family, and Community: Global Perspectives on doing Population History (2004)