Dear Clyde,
I also have similar datasets. The datasets were collected in 2 waves or 2 different years. The data was collected on same randomly villages or neighborhoods nested under three different geographic zones, but not same randomly households within those villages or neighborhoods. Child-related data were collected in those selected households. Therefore, children-household. I would like to compare the health outcomes (dependent variable is continuous) of children from these households or villages.
Is it considered as cross-sectional since it did not follow the same individuals/children? Is it a unbalanced panel? Should I be comparing the outcomes at the group-level i.e. at village level? Will you Kindly guide me the most appropriate analysis I can pursue?
Please let me know if I did not articulate properly.
Thank you and look forward to reading your guidance.
BR,
Aye Aye
I also have similar datasets. The datasets were collected in 2 waves or 2 different years. The data was collected on same randomly villages or neighborhoods nested under three different geographic zones, but not same randomly households within those villages or neighborhoods. Child-related data were collected in those selected households. Therefore, children-household. I would like to compare the health outcomes (dependent variable is continuous) of children from these households or villages.
Is it considered as cross-sectional since it did not follow the same individuals/children? Is it a unbalanced panel? Should I be comparing the outcomes at the group-level i.e. at village level? Will you Kindly guide me the most appropriate analysis I can pursue?
Please let me know if I did not articulate properly.
Thank you and look forward to reading your guidance.
BR,
Aye Aye
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