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>>>> Steven makes some good points. I have a slightly different take:
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>>>> 1. Use the -fpc- option, but understand what it means. Imagine you
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>>>> "sampled" w/o replacement 100% of establishments and workers in a
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>>>> population; with the fpc's, all standard errors would be zero. This
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>>>> is as it should be; the svy SEs in a regression using the population
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>>>> are zero, because svy SEs represent deviations around the population
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>>>> value (not Fisher-Neyman notions of deviations about what might have
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>>>> been observed in the population with a different random sprinkling of
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>>>> regressors on individuals).
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>>>>
>>>> 2. svy + panel = trouble. If you want to run a fixed-effect
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>>>> regression, consider -areg- which allows pweights that vary over time
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>>>> and a -cluster- option.
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>>>>
>>>> 3. I would use the time-specific weights which measure the number of
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>>>> person-years each observation represents in the population of workers
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>>>> in the two years. The population is then not people, but people*time.
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>>>>
>>>> On 11/8/07, Steven Joel Hirsch Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> > --
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>>>> >
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>>>> > Maury:
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>>>> >
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>>>> > I would would only add to Austin's good advice:
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>>>> >
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>>>> > 1. If you are doing regressions and hypothesis tests, do not use the
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>>>> > fpc terms. Imagined you had studied 100% of establishments and
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>>>> > workers in a population; with the fpc's, all standard errors would be
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>>>> > zero.
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>>>> >
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>>>> > 2. Stata's panel data and multi-level model -xt- commands will not
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>>>> > respond to -svyset-. For panel data analysis, the options
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>>>> > accommodating the survey design vary by command.
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>>>> >
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>>>> > 3. You should probably use the survey weights from year 1; but the
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>>>> > study documentation may have other advice. Obviously these weights
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>>>> > will not sum to the population size in either year 1 or year 2. If
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>>>> > the survey deliberately over-sampled a class of workers which is the
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>>>> > subject of your analysis (e.g. you wish to compare a minority to a
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>>>> > majority group, and the survey over-sampled the minority group), you
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>>>> > should probably ignore the survey weights altogether.
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>>>> >
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>>>> > -Steven
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>>>> >
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>>>> > On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Austin Nichols wrote:
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>>>> >
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>>>> > > Maury Gittleman <[email protected]>:
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>>>> > > Just clustering on establishment is probably sufficient.
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > You can also specify two levels of clustering with -svyset- e.g.
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > webuse stage5a
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>>>> > > svyset su1 [pweight=pw], fpc(fpc1) || su2
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > where su1 is your establishment id, fpc1 the number of distinct
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>>>> > > employees in both years, and su2 is a person id.
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > Usually the second level of clustering is largely irrelevant. But
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>>>> > > not always...
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > svyset su1 [pweight=pw], fpc(fpc1) strat(strat)
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>>>> > > svy: reg yreg x?
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>>>> > > est sto c1lev
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>>>> > > svyset su1 [pw=pw], fpc(fpc1) str(str) || su2, fpc(fpc2)
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>>>> > > svy: reg yreg x?
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>>>> > > est sto c2lev
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>>>> > > esttab *, mti
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > >
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>>>> > > On 11/8/07, Gittleman, Maury - BLS <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> > >> Hello,
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>>>> > >>
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>>>> > >> I'm have a question concerning stata's approach to estimating
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>>>> > >> standard
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>>>> > >> errors in the presence of clustered survey data. The survey I'm
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>>>> > >> using
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>>>> > >> collects information on individual wages, by first selecting
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>>>> > >> establishments at random, and then collecting information on multiple
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>>>> > >> workers within each establishment. So, it is clear that, when I'm
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>>>> > >> running regressions, I need to cluster on establishment.
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>>>> > >>
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>>>> > >> My question arises when I use two years of data from the same survey.
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>>>> > >> For about 4/5 of the individuals, there will be data for two
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>>>> > >> years, and
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>>>> > >> I would expect that the correlation between the errors for any given
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>>>> > >> individual will be higher than the correlation between the errors for
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>>>> > >> two different individuals at the same establishment. My thinking is
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>>>> > >> that I still want to define clusters by establishments, as the
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>>>> > >> variance
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>>>> > >> estimation is said to be robust to any arbitrary intra-cluster
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>>>> > >> correlation.
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>>>> > >>
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>>>> > >> Is this the right way to go or is there an alternative approach that
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>>>> > >> might be superior?
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>>>> > >>
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>>>> > >> Thanks very much.
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>>>> > >>
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>>>> > >> Maury
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>>>> > > *
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>>>> > > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
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>>>> > > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
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>>>> > > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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>>>> >
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>>>> > Steven Samuels
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>>>> >
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>>>> > [email protected]
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>>>> > 18 Cantine's Island
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>>>> > Saugerties, NY 12477
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>>>> > Phone: 845-246-0774
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>>>> > EFax: 208-498-7441
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