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Support #1418

Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC

Added by Arpita Ghosh over 3 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Weights
Start date:
09/30/2020
% Done:

100%


Description

Dear User Support Team,

I hope you are doing well in these difficult times. My questions are related to this old one (https://iserswww.essex.ac.uk/support/issues/1257) but extend a little further. I am merging household and individual response files for each of the waves of 1-9 of UKHLS and then appending them together. Following the discussion in the old thread above, I understand that I should use the cross sectional adult main survey weights for each wave in my appended UKHLS files, i.e., indinus_xw for waves 1 and 2, indinub_xw for waves 3, 4, 5 and indinui_xw for waves 6, 7, 8, 9. My questions are:
1. What is the repercussion of using indinub_xw for waves 6-9 instead of indinui_xw weight, as I am concentrating on sf12mcs_dv, sf12pcs_dv etc variables which have been collected throughout all the waves?
2. I am merging the appended UKHLS file to another data set which has the independent variable that I want to use in regressions with sf12mcs_dv (for e.g.) being the dependent variable. In this case, am I right to understand that I should create a new weight (which will correspond to both the dependent and independent variables) in the final data in order to analyse?

Thank you very much for your time and consideration and I will look forward to hear from you.

Best, Arpita

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