Surveys and survey weighting

• #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

• ANES: http://asdfree.com/american-national-election-study-anes.html
  • https://tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-short-course/
  • https://github.com/tidy-survey-r/tidy-survey-book
• GSS: http://asdfree.com/general-social-survey-gss.html
• SHARE: http://asdfree.com/survey-of-health-ageing-and-retirement-in-europe-share.html
• WVS: http://asdfree.com/world-values-survey-wvs.html

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/