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Re: st: weights panel-survey data


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: weights panel-survey data
Date   Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:57:11 -0400

Manuela, You state you have a 3 year panel. Does this mean that each household was followed for three years or that you are examining three calendar years?

I suggest that you give each household the weight it had for the first time it was selected. If all households were selected in the first calendar year, then the weights represent the population of that year. If households

Manuela, You state you have a three-year panel. Does this mean that each household was followed for three years or that you are examining three calendar years?

I suggest that you give each household the weight it had for the first time it was selected. If all households were selected in the first calendar year, then the weights represent the population of that year. If households rotated in and out, they represent the year in which they came in. The total sample then represents the "household-years" of the survey period. This is Austin Nichols's formulation. (http://www.stata.com/ statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00245.html).

There is a complication if you are interested in three calendar years, say 2000 2001 2002, but some households started follow-up before 2000 and rotated out after 2000. Give those HH the weight for 2000.


-Steve


On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Steven, the panel is unbalanced, the sampling unit is the household. The survey is carried on biannually. To each household is attributed a probability weight each year...but weights are modified each year in order to take into consideration changes in some known characteristics of the population.
thanks a lot

Steven Samuels wrote:

What are your panels? Do they all have three years of data? Please describe the population sampling process. How did the sampling produce different weights between years?

-Steve


On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Dear all
I am estimating a 3 year panel (random effect) using survey data. To get correct estimates I should use sampling weights, but the command xtreg, re does not allow me to use weights...I can use xtreg with the option mle, which allow me to use analytic weights. But stata requires weights to be constant within panels. Is it correct to use the weights of the last year, and assume they are constant within panel?
Or should I simply ignore weights?
I really appreciate your help,
Manuela


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rotated in and out, they represent the year in which they came in. The total sample then represents the "household-years" of the survey period. This was Austin Nichols's formulation. (http://www.stata.com/ statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00245.html).

There is a complication if you are interested in three calendar years, say 2000 2001 2002, but some households started follow-up before 2000 and rotated out after 2000. Give those HH the weight for 2000.

If you are analyzing a national survey data set, the survey designers may have created weights for combining data from different years. So I also suggest that you check the survey documentation.

-Steve


On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Dear Steven, the panel is unbalanced, the sampling unit is the household. The survey is carried on biannually. To each household is attributed a probability weight each year...but weights are modified each year in order to take into consideration changes in some known characteristics of the population.
thanks a lot

Steven Samuels wrote:

What are your panels? Do they all have three years of data? Please describe the population sampling process. How did the sampling produce different weights between years?

-Steve


On Oct 14, 2008, at 12:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Dear all
I am estimating a 3 year panel (random effect) using survey data. To get correct estimates I should use sampling weights, but the command xtreg, re does not allow me to use weights...I can use xtreg with the option mle, which allow me to use analytic weights. But stata requires weights to be constant within panels. Is it correct to use the weights of the last year, and assume they are constant within panel?
Or should I simply ignore weights?
I really appreciate your help,
Manuela


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