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household analysis question

Christian Deindl
hi,

I'm doing a multilevel analysis.

My results show that I have nearly none variance on the person-level.
thats why I want to do a hosehold analysis.
For that I want to delete any additional person in a household, so that
I have only 1 person per household.
Can anyone give me a clue how to do it?
I assume it must be pretty easy but I have no idea how to do it.


thanks,

christian
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Re: household analysis question

Swank, Paul R
You probably have little person level variance due to the small numbers
of households with a substantial number of people. Why not just take the
average across people within the houselhold? Although it doesn't hurt to
do this as a multilevel model anyway.

Paul R. Swank, Ph.D. Professor
Director of Reseach
Children's Learning Institute
University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston


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Christian Deindl
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Subject: household analysis question

hi,

I'm doing a multilevel analysis.

My results show that I have nearly none variance on the person-level.
thats why I want to do a hosehold analysis.
For that I want to delete any additional person in a household, so that
I have only 1 person per household.
Can anyone give me a clue how to do it?
I assume it must be pretty easy but I have no idea how to do it.


thanks,

christian