National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 7 (Volume 1 of 3): Editing, Coding, Imputation, and Weighting Procedures

National Beneficiary Survey-General Waves Round 7 (Volume 1 of 3): Editing, Coding, Imputation, and Weighting Procedures

Published: Oct 20, 2021
Publisher: Mathematica
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Associated Project

National Beneficiary Survey

Time frame: 2012-2023

Prepared for:

Social Security Administration

Authors

Yuhong Zheng

Beau Smit

Bevin Mory

Hanzhi Zhou

This report summarizes the editing, coding, imputation, and weighting procedures as well as the development of standard errors for Round 7 of the NBS. It includes an overview of the variable naming, coding, and construction conventions used in the data files and accompanying codebooks; describes how the sampling weights were computed to the final analysis weights for the representative beneficiary sample; outlines the procedures used to impute missing responses; and discusses procedures that should be used to estimate sampling variances for the NBS.

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