Re: st: Multinomial logit

[Klaus Pforr <kpforr@googlemail.com>]

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dear Andrei,

I enjoy your strategy to first blame the method rather the theory behind 
your statistical model very much, but I also want to try to give you a 
helpful answer. At first I want to ask about your data structure to 
clear things up. You seem to have panel data:

(read the following in fixed width format):

id | t | employment status| temp(t) | temp(t-1) |
1 | 1 | 1=temp | 1 | . |
1| 2 | 2=self | 0 | 1 |
1 | 3 | 3=unempl | 0 | 0 |
1 | 4 | 4=perm empl | 0 | 0 |

You would have variables like
ID, T, EMPL_T0(employment status), TEMP_T0, TEMP_Tm1, SELF_T0, SELF_Tm1, 
UNEMP_T0, UNEMP_Tm1, PERM_T0, PERM_Tm1.

You seem to want to analyze something like this
mlogit EMPL_T0 SELF_Tm1 UNEMP_Tm1 PERM_Tm1.

Considering the substantive contant of your variables, you might want to 
think about using survival analysis models. You basically are interested 
in the transition rates from temp. employment into other states. The 
different outcome are competing risks. You could include individual 
heterogeneity by using frailty models.

best wishes

Klaus

Am 25.02.2013 18:26, schrieb Aндрей Протасов:
> Dear STATA users,
>
> I am working on multinomial logit model.
>
> I would like to estimate the probability of leaving temporary employment in one year.
>
> By now, I have generated 4 variables for (t+1) year.
>
> temporary emp (1- temporary, 0 - others(self-emp, unemployment, permanent emp))
> self-employment (1-self, 0 -others)
> unemployment (1-unem, 0 - others)
> permanent employment (1 - perm employment, 0 - others)
>
> Do i have to create a dependent variable, which will include all  these categories to use in my regression?
>
> Next_year (self-emp=1, perm_emp=2, unemp=3, temp emp=4)?
> So, base is temp emp.
>
> But, I am not sure if this approach is correct cause the coefficients still do not satisfy my hypothesis....
>
> Thank You very much in advance for help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei Protasov
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