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Treading carefully Secondary analysis of new data for 6 low and middle income countries Peter Lloyd-Sherlock Presentation to 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival Oxford 8 July 2014. Pros and cons of secondary data analysis. Cheap, fast, less risk, big data sets But……..
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Treading carefully Secondary analysis of new data for 6 low and middle income countries Peter Lloyd-Sherlock Presentation to 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival Oxford 8 July 2014
Pros and cons of secondary data analysis Cheap, fast, less risk, big data sets But…….. Disconnect from data collection process Potential disconnect with specific research interests
WHO Study of Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE) Nationally representative samples of people aged 50+ in China, Ghana, India, Mexico and South Africa (2007-2010) Multi-stage, stratified, randomised cluster sampling design Total study population: 35,125 Biometrics and self-report health data Limited socio-economic data
Project aims Relationships between pensions, economic status, subjective wellbeing and health status. Analysis of determinants of national variations in prevalence, awareness and control of hypertension. Life course determinants of economic wellbeing in later life.
Proposal stage Do some descriptive analysis frequencies response rates unexpected problems Good contextual knowledge Establish contacts with researchers working on same survey
Some issues for analysis Covering six countries Gaps in the questionnaire Being opportunistic
Outputs to date Lloyd-Sherlock, P., Minicuci, N., Beard, J., Ebrahim, S. and Chatterji, S. (2014) “Hypertension among older adults in low and middle income countries: prevalence, awareness and control” International Journal of Epidemiology 14(1):116-128. P.Lloyd-Sherlock and S.Agrawal (2014) “Pensions and the health of older people in South Africa. Is there an effect?” Journal of Development Studies (forthcoming). 3 papers under review 3 policy briefs Presentations and dissemination in 6 countries