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Using Replicate Weights

“ACS Public Use Microdata Samples of 2005 and 2006 – How to Use the Replicate Weights” [Power Point]
By Dale B. Garrett and Michael Starsinic, presented at AAPOR Conference, New Orleans, May 16, 2008. The theoretical basis for successive difference model is "Aspects of Survey and Model-Based Postcensal Estimation of Income and Poverty Characteristics for States and Counties," by R. Fay and G. Train. Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics, American Statistical Association. 1995. pp. 154-159.

SAS Code for using replicate weights
Statistical packages such as stata can handle replicate weights to produce standard errors and tests of significance. However, for the ACS and CPS, the replicate weights are based on a successive difference model rather than a jack-knife or generalized linear model. No statistical package handles successive difference models as an option. Thus, one has to go through the actual algorithm to produce standard errors based on the successive difference replicate weights.

Using Replicate Weights

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