Understanding Society User Support

06/13/2025

08:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2258: Longitudinal versus cross-sectional weighting guidance

Michael,
Thank you for your question. The choice of a weight completely depends on the set up of your data and on ... Olena Kaminska

06/11/2025

02:08 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254: Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Martina,
If you are using each wave cross-sectionally, why do you require for participants to have answers in at l... Olena Kaminska

05/22/2025

03:32 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2254: Weights for repeated cross sectional study

Martina,
Thank you. If you use information within people longitudinally (e.g. you compare between time points) you... Olena Kaminska

03:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Irene,
Psu and strata can be used from any point of time - they don't change, so you can as well take them from th... Olena Kaminska

05/21/2025

12:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2255: Request for Feedback on Weighting Strategy for Longitudinal Event History Analysis

Irene,
Thank you for your question. I can tell you that your current method is wrong as you can't use the last obs... Olena Kaminska

03/25/2025

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2230: Having difficulty to create Tailored weight

Yixuan,
You can start at either at wave 1 or wave 3. Maybe wave 3 is better as it also includes BHPS (so higher sa... Olena Kaminska

03/21/2025

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2227: Help needed with individual variable weighting

Will,
I am not sure whether this will help, but our weights should be used separately to analytic weights, or weig... Olena Kaminska

03/04/2025

02:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215: PSU, Strata

Strata is not nested within PSUs. It is also not used as clustering in the design. Of course you could define your cl... Olena Kaminska

03/03/2025

01:52 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2215: PSU, Strata

Ioannis,
Thank you for your question. The data structure within one wave is PSU, household, person, and in a longi... Olena Kaminska

02/27/2025

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2214: Controlling for Non-Random Attrition Bias with Weights

Niall,
Thank you for your question. Sounds like you would want to create your own tailored weights. Our course on ... Olena Kaminska