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Mainstage Variable

lrwght

longitudinal respondent weight

Datafile

indsamp

Index term

Sampling Factors

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.18	0	0	2.5	0.42	26403

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	0	0	2.5	0.43	26845

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	0	0	2.5	0.43	27160

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	0	0	2.5	0.43	28011

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	0	0	2.5	0.43	28490

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.2	0	0	2.5	0.43	29028

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.2	0	0	2.5	0.43	29294

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.19	0	0	2.5	0.43	31458

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.25	0	0	2.5	0.47	25967

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.27	0	0	2.5	0.48	24553

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.39	0	0	2.5	0.54	17461

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.39	0	0	2.5	0.53	18073

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.46	0	0	2.5	0.55	15659

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.46	0	0	2.5	0.55	15756

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.49	0	0	2.5	0.55	15903

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.5	0	0	2.5	0.55	16110

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.58	0	0	2.5	0.54	15213

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