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Pooling waves for longitudinal analysis

Added by Spencer Thompson about 1 year ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Weights
Start date:
03/02/2023
% Done:

100%


Description

Hello,

I am doing some analysis on informal care. I want to track people's incomes for several years after they start doing care work.

So far I have used a single wave to set the cohort, e.g. I look at people who start care in wave 4 (t) and see what happens to their income in wave 5 (t+1), wave 6 (t+2), etc. However, I'd like to work with a larger sample and not rely on a single year. For example, I would pool people who start care in waves 4, 5, or 6, and treat all of these as t. For these respective cohorts, t+1 would then be waves 5, 6, 7, and so on.

I have seen the documentation on adjusting weights in order to pool waves for cross-sectional analysis. How can I do this for my longitudinal analysis?

Many thanks.

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