Excluding respondents from the weighting
Although the a statement is the first statement in the tabulation section, weights are calculated before any conditions specified on the a statement are applied. A similar thing applies to filters defined on flt, sectbeg and tab statements. Therefore, filters do not exclude respondents from weighting calculations.
To exclude respondents from the weighting, either:
▪use reject;return in the edit section to reject them from the whole tabulation section, or
▪create a cell in the weighting matrix for those respondents and give them a weight of zero.
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