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Activity Number: 167
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #304829
Title: Design and Weighting Issues for the Dual-Frame Household Panel Survey 'Labor Market and Social Security'
Author(s): Hans Kiesl*+
Companies: Institute for Employment Research
Address: Regensburger Str. 104, Nuremberg, International, 90478, Germany
Keywords: household panel ; weight share method ; weighting
Abstract:

The German Institute for Employment Research has just completed the second wave of a new panel survey focusing on low income households, which is designed as a dual frame survey. The first frame is a register of households that are currently receiving some kind of unemployment benefits; the second frame consists of an address register of the whole population. In this paper, we describe the challenges of weighting and calibration for the second wave of the survey, including nonresponse adjustment strategies for households and individuals, a comparison of different weight share methods to tackle changes in household composition, and the use of convex weighting to integrate a second wave sample of births from the smaller sampling frame (i.e. new households in need of benefits).

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