Hello,
I am using tract-level data from the American Community Survey (5-year estimates) to calculate changes in the poverty rate and race proportion. I want to use a nested regression where change score is the DV while socioeconomic characteristics are the IV. I am using years 2015 and 2010, and the data is split by year (as shown below). I am using the following code to create the DV for change score:
For Poverty rates per tract
gen deltapov = povrate15-povrate10
sum deltapov
For proportion of non-Hispanic Whites per tract
gen deltanonhwh = pnonhwh15-pnonhwh10
sum deltanonhwh
For proportion of non-Hispanic Black per tract
gen deltanonhblk = pnonhblk15-pnonhblk10
sum deltanonhblk
The final nested regression will look something like this:
nestreg: regress deltapov (male15 female15 yadult15 oadult15 senior15 less15 highsch15 somecoll15 nvrmarr15 married15 widowed15 divorced15 separated15 avginc15) (vets15 foreign15 native15 emppop15 recsnap15) (ownerocc15 renterocc15 tothousehold15 household15) if subsample==0
Is this correct? I am unsure if I am calculating these change scores correctly. Thank you!
I am using tract-level data from the American Community Survey (5-year estimates) to calculate changes in the poverty rate and race proportion. I want to use a nested regression where change score is the DV while socioeconomic characteristics are the IV. I am using years 2015 and 2010, and the data is split by year (as shown below). I am using the following code to create the DV for change score:
For Poverty rates per tract
gen deltapov = povrate15-povrate10
sum deltapov
For proportion of non-Hispanic Whites per tract
gen deltanonhwh = pnonhwh15-pnonhwh10
sum deltanonhwh
For proportion of non-Hispanic Black per tract
gen deltanonhblk = pnonhblk15-pnonhblk10
sum deltanonhblk
The final nested regression will look something like this:
nestreg: regress deltapov (male15 female15 yadult15 oadult15 senior15 less15 highsch15 somecoll15 nvrmarr15 married15 widowed15 divorced15 separated15 avginc15) (vets15 foreign15 native15 emppop15 recsnap15) (ownerocc15 renterocc15 tothousehold15 household15) if subsample==0
Is this correct? I am unsure if I am calculating these change scores correctly. Thank you!
