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Surveys and survey weighting

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#19 opened on Feb 25, 2023

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Description

  • #33
  • Add LFS (mentioned by a student) (see below)
  • Add NHIS? (see below)
  • Add Arab Barometer, with weights this time?
  • Add Afro Barometer?

Other surveys of interest

Tidy survey book

https://github.com/tidy-survey-r/tidy-survey-book https://tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-book/

  • Assign chapter(s) when done?
  • Use ANES code / examples?

LFS

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lfs https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/european-union-labour-force-survey https://www.gesis.org/en/missy/metadata/EU-LFS/ https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/public-microdata/labour-force-survey

ILO ones: https://www.ilo.org/surveyLib/index.php/collections/LFS

NHIS

Code:

https://github.com/mlaviolet/Trends/blob/master/NHIS/nhis.R http://asdfree.com/national-health-interview-survey-nhis.html

Also show:

  • downloading data and docs
  • reading fixed-width files

https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHIS/

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Research direction
Start by implementing one survey (e.g., ANES) using the tidy survey r package. Write code to download, clean, and apply survey weights. Then document the process.
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