Weighting strategy and selection analysis in the panel ‘Health in Germany‘: methods and results for the 2024 annual survey
Stefan Damerow, Ronny Kuhnert, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Johannes Lemcke · 2025
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Stefan Damerow and three co-authors explain how Germany's new national health panel corrects for the people who drift away. The panel, called Health in Germany, replaces one-off surveys as the main source of nationwide health data. But panels lose people at every stage: recruitment, registration, and each yearly round. The team measured who drops out and built weights to compensate.
Age, education, and citizenship predicted registration far more than health traits such as smoking or chronic disease. Similar patterns held for answering the 2024 questionnaires. The paper sets out the weighting scheme in detail and compares raw and weighted results against reference figures. The authors show the corrections shrink the gaps, supporting the panel's claim to represent the whole population.
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| CREATOR | Stefan Damerow, Ronny Kuhnert, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Johannes Lemcke |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 103 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |