Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling node

We have analysed dropout and response from 17 waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) over the period 1991 to 2007. The dependent variables examined are attitudinal and take the form of ordinal responses to a series of questions concerning gender roles. The dataset comprises repeated measurements over time on the same set of individuals and is therefore a longitudinal panel subject to dropout. In order to take into account the repeated measures aspect of the data, we use random effects models to capture the associated residual heterogeneity. 

 

The new models are used to model jointly both dropout and response, and pairs of responses. The models include both individual and household characteristics plus, for dropout, variables measuring the interviewers’ level of access to the respondents in previous waves. We find that gender and age are amongst the most important determinants of attitudes to gender roles, and that attitudes within society as a whole became generally more egalitarian over the period of study. The collection of outcomes give a largely consistent set of estimates and the correlations between the random effects in the joint response models confirm the traditional/egalitarian orientation of respondents towards gender roles. This work will be presented at the RSS conference in Brighton in September 2010.

 

 

Ghahroodi, Z.R., Ganjali, M. & Berridge, D., 2009. A transition model for ordinal response data with random dropout: an application to the fluvoxamine data. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 19 (4), pp 658 - 671.

 

Berridge, D., Penn, R. & Ganjali, M., 2009. Changing attitudes to gender roles: a longitudinal analysis of ordinal response data from the British Household Panel Study. International Sociology, 24 (3), pp 346 - 367.