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How do I account for clustering within families? [message #1951]

Fri, 11 April 2014 00:01

vega25
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Registered: April 2014
Location: United States

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Hello,

The children's dataset in DHS files may have some of the records for multiple children within families - for instance if the dataset has data for all children born in the five years preceding the survey and some of the female respondents had more than one children during that time. Thus many children in the dataset would be siblings.

When this is the case, how does one account for the fact that there are some siblings in the data and so they have the same set of background/household/parental variables? Is adding "cluster(caseid)" as an option at the end of the regression syntax in Stata a valid way of doing so? Would this be okay? Or just asking for robust standard errors? Alternately, is a family-fixed effects the best way of doing this? My concern with family-fixed effects is the loss of sample size.

Thank you for any advice that people may have.

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		How do I account for clustering within families? By: vega25 on Fri, 11 April 2014 00:01
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: user-rhs on Fri, 11 April 2014 14:15
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Fri, 11 April 2014 14:25
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: vega25 on Sat, 12 April 2014 01:26
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: user-rhs on Sat, 12 April 2014 09:41
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sat, 12 April 2014 17:12
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sat, 12 April 2014 17:01
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Liz-DHS on Sun, 13 April 2014 18:48
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 13 April 2014 19:09
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Liz-DHS on Thu, 17 April 2014 12:42
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 18 April 2014 13:51
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Liz-DHS on Thu, 24 April 2014 13:28
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: vega25 on Wed, 03 December 2014 20:33
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: user-rhs on Wed, 03 December 2014 20:43
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: ahmed89o on Sat, 09 July 2016 17:14
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: user-rhs on Sat, 09 July 2016 22:35
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: ab803 on Thu, 21 September 2017 21:37
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 24 September 2017 15:20
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: ab803 on Mon, 25 September 2017 00:43
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Mon, 25 September 2017 14:26
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: ab803 on Tue, 26 September 2017 01:24
		Re: How do I account for clustering within families? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Thu, 28 September 2017 16:44

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