Hi!! I'm a STATA newbie and confused about what may be a very easy topic. I'm doing research on the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Consumer Product Safety Commission database. Basically, I ran a query for a specific subset of cases we're interested in and it returned a spreadsheet of 50 or so cases based on random sampling of 100 hospitals, which are supposed to represent a much larger national estimate of cases. The Excel spreadsheet contains the variables PSU, weight, and strata. I have seen in one other paper that the authors used the svyset function in Stata to turn these variables from this specific database into national estimates. Unfortunately the paper doesn't say much more than that. I went statistics>survey data analysis>setup and utilities>declare survey design for dataset. I filled in PSU as Stage 1 PSU and the strata variable as strata under main with 1 as the number of stages, put the weight variable in as the sampling weight variable under Weights, stuck with linearized SE. I think I'm missing something basic due to my inexperience... but where do I go from here? How do I then proceed to make estimates based off these variables?