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i now realise there arent any youth longitudinal weights, i do not think id have the capabilities to create my own weight given my time constraints. Could you please suggest another alternative? would i be able to use the cross sectional youth weight? or perhaps the household longitudinal weight as that is the exposure

Thanks very much for this. I looked through the previous queries and it seems that when a custom weight is not created, the longitudinal enumeration weight (psnenus_lw) is usually recommended. Would this be suitable for analyses focused on youth outcomes? I understand that it adjusts for attrition across waves, but I am unsure whether it is designed specifically for youth samples? in practice, do researchers typically use this weight for youth-focused analyses?

Attrition is something i want to account for issue in this study, and I believe psnenus_lw accounts for general dropout over time. However, I am not sure whether it captures the structural missingness in the youth files as participants age out of eligibility?

Finally, if psnenus_lw is used, should it be applied to the final merged dataset after linking the household, adult, and youth files?