Understanding Society User Support

05/22/2012

12:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #54: Weights for youth self-completion data

No such weights were developed for the interim release. We are considering to release such weights in the future, alt... Olena Kaminska

12:43 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #55: Do weights adjust for non-independence of children within households?

Peter,
Thank you for your question. Weights do not adjust for so-called clustering or nesting within households. T... Olena Kaminska

11:34 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #51: a_indinus_xw weight=0

inresp dataset consists of proxy and full respondents. If you are using information available for proxy respondents, ... Olena Kaminska

05/18/2012

10:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #52: Components of weighting variable a_indinus_xw

Sometimes it is indeed a good approach to model nonresponse as part of the model. If you want to do it, please make s... Olena Kaminska

05/10/2012

06:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #43: Weighting-related questions

No, you don't need to include a_hidp in addition to a_psu. Households are nested within psu, so controlling for psu w... Olena Kaminska

05/08/2012

11:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #43: Weighting-related questions

Yes, you will need to use the weight for extra five minutes a_ind5mus_xw, simply because by using at least one variab... Olena Kaminska

04/30/2012

06:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #44: Weighting on a restricted sample (outcome=110)

This is a summary of a longer discussion via email. The process has two stages and will require two weights: first st... Olena Kaminska

12:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #43: Weighting-related questions

Thank you for your questions.
1) you should use analysis weights. These also correct for nonresponse. Design weig... Olena Kaminska