title: Adjusting for attrition in event-history analysis.
abstract: "This paper will investigate the issue of weighting for panel attrition in event-history models by comparing alternative treatments of sampling weights in a divorce model for members of the 1986 [U.S.] Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Three distinct weighting procedures are compared. These are based on (1) the initial selection probability weights; (2) the 1986 SIPP panel weights; and (3) the monthly attrition-adjusted weights. The paper also compares these weighted estimates with the estimates of a structural model in which attrition is treated as an error-correlated competing alternative to divorce." The results indicate that in many instances divorces in the SIPP end up being recorded as attrition.
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003625:Data Collection; D019049:Developed Countries; D004243:Divorce; D008393:Marriage; D008722:Methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Developed Countries; Divorce; Error Sources; Measurement; Methodological Studies; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Nuptiality; Research Methodology; Sampling Studies; Studies; Surveys; United States