R help - May 2011 - svytable and na's

hi,

i am trying to work with the survey package in order to apply survey design
weights. the data set i am using - ess - contains missing values.
my question: when using svytable(~variable1+variable2,
design=my.svydesign.object, na.rm=T) the resulting crosstable contains all
missings although i defined the na's as such.

any ideas???
thanks a lot,
katharina

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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Manderscheid Katharina
<Katharina.Manderscheid at unilu.ch> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am trying to work with the survey package in order to apply survey design
weights. the data set i am using - ess - contains missing values.
> my question: when using svytable(~variable1+variable2,
design=my.svydesign.object, na.rm=T) the resulting crosstable contains all
missings although i defined the na's as such.
>
Could you give more details? There isn't an na.rm= argument to
svytable, so it's not surprising it has no effect, but I don't know
what you mean when you say the table "contains all missings." Perhaps
you could show us the output and say how it differs from what you
expected.

     -thomas

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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland