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5. Mai 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: A comparison of following rules and weighting approaches in household panel surveys
A comparison of following rules and weighting approaches in household panel surveys

Termin

5. Mai 2010
12.30 - 13.30

Ort

Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
Room 3.3.002A
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Matthias Schonlau, Rand Corporation
Martin Kroh,
DIW Berlin

 Abstract
The first wave of a household panel survey captures a cross section of the population at one point in time. However, target population and household composition change over time. Following rules are introduced to decide which household members are still surveyed after they leave the household. We compare following rules of several large household panels and show how different following rules would have affected sample size in the SOEP. Changing household compositions also raise questions about appropriate sampling weights. We compare various weighting approaches employed by large household panels to address this issue. We find that after 25 panel years most respondents still live in a household with a wave 1 respondent. Therefore, following rules have relatively little impact on sample size.

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