Re: error message after weighting : At least one case in the data file had a weight value that was user-missing, system-missing, zero, or negative.

[Ben Pfaff]

Which data set did you use? What syntax did you use?

Someone else posted about ESS11, but that doesn't have a variable
named anweight.


On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 7:48 AM ft gmail <public.ftr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I try to understand what the error message printed below means, and what to 
> do.
>
> In fact, I analyse a data set from the European Social Survey which is 
> provided with a weight variable anweight which I used.
>
> I got the error message:
>
> warning: FREQUENCIES: At least one case in the data file had a weight value 
> that was user-missing, system-missing, zero, or negative.  These case(s) were 
> ignored.
>     1 | freq anweight.
>       |              ^
>
> A frequency output of anweight shows no user- or system-missing, negative or 
> zero value. For a multi-million representative and publicly downloadable 
> bi-annual population study this would be surprising.
>
>              Statistics
> ╭─────────┬────────────────────────╮
> │         │anweight Analysis weight│
> ├─────────┼────────────────────────┤
> │N Valid  │                42359,68│
> │  Missing│                     ,00│
> ├─────────┼────────────────────────┤
> │Mean     │                    3,85│
> ├─────────┼────────────────────────┤
> │Std Dev  │                    2,41│
> ├─────────┼────────────────────────┤
> │Minimum  │                     ,12│
> ├─────────┼────────────────────────┤
> │Maximum  │                    22,0│
> ╰─────────┴────────────────────────╯
>
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> - ftr