Download or read book Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Weighting of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 1997 Reference Year written by Isabelle Lévesque and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal panel survey of individuals. The purpose of the survey is to measure changes in the economic well-being of individuals and the factors that influence these changes. SLID's sample is divided into two overlapping panels, each six years in length. Longitudinal surveys like SLID are complex due to the dynamic nature of the sample, which in turn is due to the ever-changing composition of households and families over the years. For each reference year, SLID produces two sets of weights: one is representative of the initial population (the longitudinal weights) while the other is representative of the current population (the cross-sectional weights). This document uses results for the 1997 reference year to describe SLID's methodology for the longitudinal and cross-sectional weights, and presents problems that have been encountered and solutions that have been proposed.