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Ruth,

Yes, technically you will be pooling young people from different years. As a suboptimal weight try to use psnenus_lw weight or psnenub_lw weight when they are 13 at wave 2 or later. Some of your 0s are because of the boost, but you can use boost only if you have enough years, so you can use ui weight only for those who are 13 or older at wave 6.

You can improve your weight by additional modelling. Email us to request the training material.

Best,
Olena

Hi Olena

Thanks for your reply it was really helpful. I've emailed user support to request the training material as you suggest. I had a further question related to the previous query - can I use the cross-sectional weight psnenus_xw for those who 13 at wave 1?

Many thanks
Ruth

Ruth,

You can use xw weight only if your analysis uses 1 wave, and therefore does not use any information from other waves.

Best,
Olena

Thanks Olena. OK that makes sense and so xw weights aren't relevant for my case as I do want to use info form latter waves. Do you know what weight I could use for young people who are 13 at wave 1?

Many thanks
Ruth

Ruth - I cannot see any email request from you. Please email usersupport@understandingsociety.ac.uk

Hi there

As you've suggested I have used psnenus_lw weight when they are 13 at wave 2 and so on and ui from wave 6 to include the boost. I was just wondering what suboptimal weight could be used for those who were 13 in wave 1 and 15 in a following wave – would it be OK to use their psnenus_lw weight from the wave when they were 15?

Thanks in advance.

Ruth

Ruth,

Yes, this would be the correct suboptimal weight.

Best,
Olena

Thank you!