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Selecting correct weights

Added by Nurfatima Jandarova over 4 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Weights
Start date:
10/02/2019
% Done:

100%


Description

Hello!

I am a bit lost about the correct weights for analysis. My project makes use of school codes and I can see that in any given wave there are about 7-8K observations with non-missing school code. However, if I use information for all people who have ever answered this question in any wave, the sample size grows to about 16-17K observations. So, I feel tempted to have a sample of all people who have ever answered this question, but cannot figure out which weights I could use in such analysis. The documentation says that whenever a researcher uses information from multiple waves, he/she should use longitudinal weights. But my understanding and some of the previous answers in this forum made me think that longitudinal weights apply if I want to estimate changes from wave to wave. Could you please help me resolve this issue?

Thank you!

Fatima

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