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12/01/2021

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Yes, youth weights will be suboptimal weights for your analysis (assuming analysis within one wave, and not... Olena Kaminska

11/30/2021

11:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Assuming no change in population size of PSUs over time, the selection probability at the PSU stage is the sa... Olena Kaminska

11/26/2021

02:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Also, if people move across PSUs you are in the territory of a cross-classified design, which would need to b... Olena Kaminska

02:03 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Yes, there may be a population increase (by newborns or immigration). It depends on your longitudinal plans f... Olena Kaminska

12:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Jun,
Let's talk about a theoretical example.
In IP1 let's say we sample 10 people out of each PSU. If each PSU ha... Olena Kaminska

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
I can confirm that "if weight2011>0" is not necessary in this example and should result in the same estimat... Olena Kaminska

11/25/2021

02:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
The FAQ is not related to the question you have. It relates to a pooled dataset where if you pool over many... Olena Kaminska

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
Yes, I see what you mean, and I was able to replicate your results. By expectation this should not happen. ... Olena Kaminska

11/24/2021

03:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
Are all of your 3 scenarios weighted? And do you use the same svyset for them?
Thanks,
Olena
Olena Kaminska

11:27 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1609: Including/excluding zero weights changes SEs (but not coefficients)

Marie,
I am not sure about your question. If you use weights correctly people with 0 weights won't contribute to y... Olena Kaminska

11:20 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1610: Weighting method for IP4 refreshment sample

Dear Jun Wang,
Thank you for your question.
1. Selection probabilities for refreshment sample are independent of ... Olena Kaminska

11/23/2021

12:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
First of all, you could use youth in a longitudinal analysis, just keeping in mind that a few years before ... Olena Kaminska

12:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Thank you. Do you mean that you pool all youth data from all waves? And for each wave you want to combine y... Olena Kaminska

11/19/2021

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1608: Question about weights for analysis of child and youth data

Marie,
Thank you. It sounds like the best approach would be for you to create a tailored weight. But you could als... Olena Kaminska

11/04/2021

12:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1590: Creating a weight variable for fixed effects analysis

Karen,
Yes, that's correct.
Olena Olena Kaminska