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Re: st: Variance estimation with clusters
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Maury:
I would would only add to Austin's good advice:
1. If you are doing regressions and hypothesis tests, do not use the
fpc terms. Imagined you had studied 100% of establishments and
workers in a population; with the fpc's, all standard errors would be
zero.
2. Stata's panel data and multi-level model -xt- commands will not
respond to -svyset-. For panel data analysis, the options
accommodating the survey design vary by command.
3. You should probably use the survey weights from year 1; but the
study documentation may have other advice. Obviously these weights
will not sum to the population size in either year 1 or year 2. If
the survey deliberately over-sampled a class of workers which is the
subject of your analysis (e.g. you wish to compare a minority to a
majority group, and the survey over-sampled the minority group), you
should probably ignore the survey weights altogether.
-Steven
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Austin Nichols wrote:
Maury Gittleman <[email protected]>:
Just clustering on establishment is probably sufficient.
You can also specify two levels of clustering with -svyset- e.g.
webuse stage5a
svyset su1 [pweight=pw], fpc(fpc1) || su2
where su1 is your establishment id, fpc1 the number of distinct
employees in both years, and su2 is a person id.
Usually the second level of clustering is largely irrelevant. But
not always...
svyset su1 [pweight=pw], fpc(fpc1) strat(strat)
svy: reg yreg x?
est sto c1lev
svyset su1 [pw=pw], fpc(fpc1) str(str) || su2, fpc(fpc2)
svy: reg yreg x?
est sto c2lev
esttab *, mti
On 11/8/07, Gittleman, Maury - BLS <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm have a question concerning stata's approach to estimating
standard
errors in the presence of clustered survey data. The survey I'm
using
collects information on individual wages, by first selecting
establishments at random, and then collecting information on multiple
workers within each establishment. So, it is clear that, when I'm
running regressions, I need to cluster on establishment.
My question arises when I use two years of data from the same survey.
For about 4/5 of the individuals, there will be data for two
years, and
I would expect that the correlation between the errors for any given
individual will be higher than the correlation between the errors for
two different individuals at the same establishment. My thinking is
that I still want to define clusters by establishments, as the
variance
estimation is said to be robust to any arbitrary intra-cluster
correlation.
Is this the right way to go or is there an alternative approach that
might be superior?
Thanks very much.
Maury
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