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Hi Peter,

Thank you for getting back to me so soon, much appreciated.

Ok - I will admit here that I am a 1+3 masters student, and longitudinal analysis is very new to me; I am yet to perform any analysis, I am currently just reading.

Yes, my unit of analysis will the child's well-being as the outcome. You are correct, so I will be submerging the parents atributes on to children and treating them as child responses so to speak.

You final question about how I would use certain children is not something I have thought about as of yet. I imagine the best way to do it, commonsensically, would be to take the measures from wave 6. I was unaware of the complexity that time period dependent variables bring.

I hope that answers your question slightly more - if this is something which is better solved when my analysis has become more clear I am happy to readdress this.

Emily

I will be controlling for age, yes.

Ok that makes sense - although, it does specify that weights using wave 1 data should only use the GPS and EMB weights - will that still be relevant (weight: a_ythscus_xw)? Or is it more to do with weights and your outcome variables?
Also, should I be concerned about the use of cross-sectional weights on longitudinal analysis? It sounds concerning in terms of the reliability of the data.

I would like to use waves 1, 2, 4 and 6 (I may exclude wave 1 due to it missing a few variables I want; I'm looking to work around it).

I too am slightly concerned about the level of missing data that I may see in this model, but your comments around this are very much appreciated and it will be something I take to my supervision in a couple of weeks time.

Thank you for this, I really do appreciate it!

Best,

Emily

The choice of weights depends on the set of analysis units that you want to include in the analysis, i.e. the definition of "response" for your purpose (= relevant observations are present). Not really on what type of analysis you then want to do with those units.

I'm not sure what you mean by including waves 1, 2, 4 and 6. If you mean that the parent info must have been observed in all 4 waves, then this will restrict your analysis sample further, compared to accepting predictor variables from any wave.

Are you coming to our Understanding Society conference in July? If yes, maybe we could discuss this then?

Peter

Ok, that makes sense.

I did want to include waves 1,2,4 and 6 to look at different time points of traumatic events - however, the more research I do the less I think that will be possible; I think the best way to do this is to take the events at e.g. wave 4 and then observe the outcome at wave 6. My apologies for my lack of understanding.

I would like to go, however, I am an MSc student and my ESRC stipend does not cover research trips in my +1 year. I am also working out which day would be ideal - I imagine this would be Wednesday's (day 2) session. I would like to come.

Best,

Emily