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Technical notes

To make it easier to use the NEEMSIS data, the research team has produced a series of technical notes.


RUME-NEEMSIS survey: How to Handle Panel Data?

Technical note No.1
Abstract: This short note aims to provide the key to handling the RUME (2010), NEEMSIS-1 (2016-17), and NEEMSIS-2 (2020-21) panel data sets, a first-hand survey panel collected within the Observatory of Rural Dynamics and Inequalities. After briefly reviewing the data collected in ten villages in rural South India and cross-sectional identifiers, this note provides the details necessary to assemble these surveys longitudinally. An example from the Stata software and construction keys for future waves are provided.
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How to handle personality traits and cognitive skills variables in the NEEMSIS-1 (2016-17) survey wave?

Technical note No.2
Abstract: This short note aims to provide the key to handling the personality traits and cognitive skills variables in the NEEMSIS-1 (2016-17) survey wave. After a brief description of the data collected in ten villages in rural South India, this note provides the details needed to link the questions to the Big-5 traits and gives the correct answer to the Raven matrix test.
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