Support #1908
Weights using the BHPS Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories
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Hello. I am studying differences in single/partnered parents. To do so, I am using the British Household Panel Survey Consolidated Marital, Cohabitation and Fertility Histories (1991-2009) to identify my sample of single/non-single parents, and then, merging it with the BHPS individual questionnaire to get the relevant variables.
My question is, which weights should I be using? I was thinking on indin91_lw, but I am not entirely sure.
Besides, which type of weights are they? Frequency or analytic weights?
Thank you!
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Updated by Olena Kaminska 11 months ago
Dear Natalia,
Thank you for your question. All the weights we provide are probability weights (pw in stata).
If you analysis is a longitudinal _lw weight will be good, if you are pooling information you may use _xw weights (if your analysis uses information from the same wave).
For further information read our FAQs:
https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/general/weighting_faqs.pdf
Hope this helps,
Olena
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