Totals - DRAFT VERSION

The totals procedure estimates the population total from the sample data as

where is a sample weight, usually representing the inverse of the probability of selection, sometimes adjusted for nonresponse and poststratified to match population totals of some other variables.

The variance matrix for the population totals is given by,

.

Standard errors can be estimated by Taylor-series expansion or a replication, such as the jackknife.

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