How do I indicate a poststratification variable and the poststratification weights?
If your survey design includes poststratification, you need to indicate to WesVar the variable that defines the post-strata and the poststratification population control totals (not the weights themselves). After you have created the replicate weights, click on data -> poststratification. This will open up a dialogue box. At the top, you can give the poststratification weights a prefix (this is useful when looking at the data in a text file or in another statistical package). Next, you need to indicate which variable contains the poststrata coding. Finally, you need to name a file that contains the poststratification totals. This file should be a text file, although the text file can have either a .txt or a .dat file extension. The file must contain two columns of numbers. The first column gives the strata and the second gives the population total. WesVar will give an error message if the number of strata in the text file does not match up correctly with the number of strata in the var
