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Lagging Youth variable -> Adult variable - cross-sectional or longitudinal weight?
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As part of my analysis, I am conducting three lagged general linear models on Youth and Adult surveys. In each model, I regress a variable from Wave 3 of the Youth survey onto a variable from Wave 6, 9 and 13 of the Adult survey, respectively. Prior to the models, I filter all the Adult waves to only contain respondents who have responded in Wave 3 of the Youth survey.
I wasn't able to find information on how lagging variables from these two surveys should be handled. Should the cross-sectional or the longitudinal weight be used? If the latter, should it be the longitudinal weight specific to the wave used, or the very last wave that's being analysed, considering three separate models?
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team about 2 months ago
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Updated by Olena Kaminska about 2 months ago
Szymon,
Thank you for your question. The weight would depend on whether the model requires complete or incomplete information from lagged variables. If the model is happy with an incomplete information (so some missingness from previous waves is fine) then the model deals with nonresponse itself (either via an assumption or via some type of nonresponse correction). In that situation you won't need the weights to correct for that part of nonresponse. If not, and the model requires only complete information from all points of time of a lagged variable you would need our longitudinal weight to account for nonresponse in each point of time.
Hope this helps,
Olena
Updated by Understanding Society User Support Team 26 days ago
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