In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former spouses/partners, grown children) in subsequent waves. Following rules have been largely ignored in the literature leaving panel designers unaware of ...
2010| Matthias Schonlau, Nicole Watson, Martin Kroh
This paper outlines a panel data retrieval program written for Stata/SE 10 or better, which allows easier accessing of complex panel data sets. Using a drop-down menu and mouse click system, the researcher selects variables from any and all available years of a panel study. The data is automatically retrieved and merged to form a "long file", which can be directly used by the Stata panel estimators. ...
In:
Janet A. Harkness et al. (Eds.) ,
Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
S. 355-372
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
In:
Janet A. Harkness et al. (Eds.) ,
Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
S. 507-514
| Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges, Mathis Schröder
Set-point theory is the main research paradigm in the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has been extended and refined for 30 years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some "discordant data", including evidence that some events are so tragic (e.g. the death of one's ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 1, S. 7-21
| Bruce Headey