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Re: How do I account for clustering within families? [message #2005 is a reply to message #1969]

Sat, 12 April 2014 01:26

vega25
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Yes I see what you're saying about wanting to cluster at a level higher than the household, perhaps the cluster. That is a good suggestion and cluster-fixed effects is very much a strategy I'm considering.

But what I'm trying to do before that or in lieu of that to begin with, is essentially "control" for the fact that some of the children in the sample share the same household characteristics and are siblings. So in a manner of speaking, the total sample of children whose health status is my dependent variable, actually belong only to a much smaller number of households and therefore to a smaller number of distinct maternal or household characteristics.

In that case, is this something to do in addition to cluster-fixed effects?

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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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