Medians and Surveymeans: I am trying to determine the median values for health worker's workload across settings, but when I run surveymeans requesting median (I use the By statement since median does not work with the domain statement), anyway the median value I get is different that the median value I get when I hand calculate the median. For example surveymeans says the median value is 18.3 in a number set of 6,9,13,14,14,15,15,19,19,19,25,25,27,39,45,54,74,101,180. I hand calculated median of 19 (not terriblely far off, but why 18.3 ?). or surveymeans gives me a median of 41 out of a string of this values: 2,9,13,25,36,40,44,44,55,70,75,90,91. I calculate the median of 44. The data is weighted and clustered, but the weights within a strata(settings) are all the same. Any thoughts on why the median values differ??
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