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01/15/2021

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel,
Your option 1 is the best: it goes back to the most recent of our weights and then models nonresponse in o... Olena Kaminska

01/11/2021

11:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1472: Weighting youth analysis across waves 1–8

Marie,
Thank you for your question.
On weights: we do not have a specific weight for your analysis. Please do no... Olena Kaminska

12/07/2020

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel,
Yes, you should.
Thanks,
Olena Olena Kaminska

11:50 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1458: Weights for Covid longitudinal sample

Manuel,
Yes, this sounds correct. Although it has one unnecessary assumption of no household composition change be... Olena Kaminska

11/23/2020

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1448: Selecting longitudinal weights for youth starting at wave 1

Dear George,
Thank you for your question. We do not provide longitudinal youth weights as one quickly runs out of ... Olena Kaminska

10/14/2020

11:30 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Abigail,
The data for indin01_lw starts with 2001, and the data for indin91_lw starts in 1991. While the variabl... Olena Kaminska

09/30/2020

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1418: Weight variable for appending all waves of USOC

Arpita,
Thank you for your question. 'ui' weight is better in two ways: it has higher sample size (so higher stati... Olena Kaminska

09/25/2020

10:26 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1394: Follow up on having a “unified” weighting variable for analyzing

Abigail,
Just to add, if you are concerned about the differences in the populations, then you can use full samples... Olena Kaminska

09/24/2020

11:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1416: components of weight variables

Filip,
We do not calibrate to housing tenure. Housing tenure is used in the correction for attrition. So the infor... Olena Kaminska

11:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1416: components of weight variables

Dear Filip,
Thank you for your question. I can confirm that housing tenure goes into weighting models.
Unfortuna... Olena Kaminska