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Weighting Schemes for Household Panel Survey

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Working Paper Number: SIPP-WP-199
Weighting Schemes for Household Panel Survey
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The purpose of this paper is to consider how weights can be developed for the data collected from both original and associated sample persons to be used in producing unbiased (or approximately unbiased) estimates of population parameters.

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