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Measuring Marriage & Divorce among Same-Sex Couples
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Q:
The PSID changed their sample in 1997 - reduced the number of original families that are included in the survey. How does this affect the weights?
A:
There is a document on the PSID website that provides an [explanation of how the weights were recalibrated:
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/data/Documentation/wts97.pdf.
The source for this answer is from the PSID FAQ area (#32):