Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach
| dc.creator | Branson, Nicola | |
| dc.creator | Wittenberg, Martin | |
| dc.date | 2012-12-03T12:07:15Z | |
| dc.date | 2012-12-03T12:07:15Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-28T10:05:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-28T10:05:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-28 | |
| dc.description | In the absence of established longitudinal panel surveys in South African, national cross-sectional household survey data are frequently used to analyse change. When these data are stacked side-byside, however, inconsistencies both in time trends and between household and person level data are found. This study uses a new set of weights calibrated to the ASSA 2003 model totals using a cross entropy estimation approach. This approach is favoured because the calculated weights are similar to the initial sample weights (and hence retain the survey design benefits) but match to a series of age-sex-race and province marginal totals that are consistent over time. The weights are publicly available for a fourteen year period between 1994 and 2007. This is a SALDRU/DataFirst Working Paper | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11090/63 | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Cross-sectional data KW - Household survey data KW - Cross entropy estimation KW - Weights LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach TI - Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/63 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11090/63 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit | |
| dc.publisher.department | SALDRU | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.subject | Cross-sectional data | |
| dc.subject | Household survey data | |
| dc.subject | Cross entropy estimation | |
| dc.subject | Weights | |
| dc.title | Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach | |
| dc.type | Report | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | SALDRU Report | en_ZA |