RE: st: BHPS analysts

[Yasir Zuberi <yasirzuberi2@hotmail.com>]

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Thank you once again for your prompt reply. I have been using your online PDF's to try and help me get through understanding my way around using the BHPS and Stata (to which I am a newbie to both). 

For creating the time-trend using logistic regressions around 2002 and would it be possible for you to just advise what my first steps could be in being able to investigate this? Or alternatively point me in the direction of literature which I could use to help me get through? 

I am sorry for the email its just I am struggling to manoeuvre around the BHPS data set and with an added time pressure, you can say the stress is getting to me!

Kind Regards

Yasir 


> From: brendan.halpin@ul.ie
> To: yasirzuberi2@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: st: BHPS analysts
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:25:06 +0100
>
> On Mon, Mar 31 2014, Yasir Zuberi wrote:
>
>> I further wanted to use the BHPS to see specifically if the Tobacco
>> Advertising & Promotion Act 2002 in the UK has had an effect on smoking
>> rates and seeing how smoking rates effected males and females were
>> affected different and people how people of different age ranges were
>> affected e.g. (15-25 26-35 36-45>45). I was thinking to see what the
>> smoking levels were 3 years prior to 2002 and 3 after 2002 and see if
>> there has been a significant change. Would you be able to give any
>> advice on this?
>
> That seems like a reasonable strategy. Rather than look at 3 years
> before and after, you could also look at the time-trend. You could also
> look at rates of cessation (smoking at t, not smoking at t+1) using
> logistic regression.
>
> Note that there is a vast literature on attempting to detect causal
> effects in longitudinal data.
>
>>
>> The last thing I also want to test for individuals current labour force
>> status (wjbstat) and whether there is a correlation over time to whether
>> they smoke or not and how many cigarettes they smoke. For example, do
>> unemployed people smoke more cigarettes than employed people?
>
> Note that wJBSTAT changes in an inconsistent manner from wave 1 to wave
> 2. You will need to recode it in wave 1 to be consistent.
>
> Regard,
>
> Brendan
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