I am trying to figure out if Panel Data Analsysis is the most appropriate procedure to use to� analyze some data
We are conducting an impact assessment of a development project is South Asia.� There is a control group and a test group. We have administered a questionnaire at the beginning of the study, and are now going back in to administer a follow-up survey two years later. There are only two points in time -- that of the original survey and that of the followup survey.� We want to know if the changes over time are significantly different for the test and control groups.
Some of the�variables are continuous varibles (income in time 1 versus income time 2), where we want to know which of the two groups (control or test) has experienced the greastest increase in income.�� Others are various forms of scales -- such as "How would you rate your income?": 1=Very good, 2=Good,3=Neither Good nor Bad, 4=Bad, 5 = Very Bad.-- where we want to see if perceptions have changed over time and which group has changed the most between time� 1 and time 2.
Is Panel Data (as in the "Longitudinal/Panel Data" manual) the appropriate approach to take in analyzing thse two types of questions with control and test groups, or is there a more appropriate procedure for doing this?
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
John Magill
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