Technical Description of the Health and Retirement Study Sample Design

作者：Steven G. Heeringa · 年份：1995 · DOI：10.7826/isr-um.06.585031.001.05.0001.1995 · 被引用次数：302 · 研究领域：Retirement, Disability, and Employment

The following technical memorandum describes the sample design, sampling procedures, and sample outcomes for Wave 1 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).This document is divided into six sections.The introduction describes the purpose and organization of the HRS.Sections 2 and 3 provide an overview and a detailed description of the multi-stage area probability sample design.The fourth section reports the HRS Wave 1 sample outcomes --a comparison of the expected versus observed occupancy, eligibility, and response rates.Sections 5 and 6 contain descriptions of the construction and use of the analysis weights and the codes and procedures for computation of sampling errors for the HRS data.