Statistics for social and behavioral sciences

Type Book Section - Panel Data
Title Statistics for social and behavioral sciences
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Publisher Springer
City New York
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0385-2_9
Abstract
Most household survey data come from a single cross-section of households surveyed at a single point in time. This is useful if the purpose is to get a snapshot of income or poverty, and it does allow for a detailed analysis, for instance, of the proximate determinants of health or malnutrition or income. However, it is rarely possible to get an adequate appreciation of dynamic effects how incomes in a household rise and fall, how households form and re-form without panel data.

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