PASS User Guide
Preface
1
The Evolution of PASS Over Two Decades
1.1
PASS background and objectives
1.2
Development of Focal Issues Over the Waves
1.3
Methodological Innovations to Improve Data Quality
2
PASS Survey Design and Methodology
2.1
Sampling Procedure
2.1.1
Sampling Design in the First Wave
2.1.2
Panel Retention and Sample Refreshment
2.1.3
Replenishment Samples
2.1.4
Refugee Sub-samples
2.1.5
Sub-samples
2.1.6
Sampling Frame and Auxiliary Data for Non-response Analyses and Post-Survey Adjustments
2.2
Mixed-Mode Design
2.3
Respondent Incentives
2.4
Call Records, Fieldwork Monitoring, and the Development towards Responsive Design
3
PASS Survey Design and Methodology - Weighting
3.1
Initial weighting process
3.1.1
Stage 1: Design weights for the gross sample
3.1.2
Stage 2: Modelling non-response
3.1.3
Stage 3: Calibration
3.2
Construction of the weights from wave 2 onwards
3.2.1
Design weights for the wave
\(n\)
households in the
\(n+1\)
th
wave.
3.2.2
Design weights for the wave
\(n + 1\)
refreshment sample
3.2.3
Response propensity models for panel households
3.2.4
Non-response weighting for households in the wave n refreshment sample
3.2.5
Propensity models for temporary drop-outs
3.2.6
Integration of weights by convex combination
3.2.7
Response propensity models for panel persons
3.2.8
Integration of the weights to yield the total weight before calibration
3.2.9
Calibration to the household weight, wave
\(n + 1\)
, cross-section
3.2.10
Calibration to the person weight, wave
\(n + 1\)
, cross-section
3.2.11
Estimating BA cross-sectional weights for non-recipient Households and Individuals
3.3
Integration of weights from replenishment samples
3.4
Weighting datasets and weighting variables
3.5
Web-survey weighting
4
Survey Instruments
4.1
Questionnaire
4.2
Logic of questionnaire modules within PASS
4.3
Key variables across the two questionnaires
4.3.1
Household Interview
4.3.2
Individual Interview
5
PASS SUF Datasets and Variables: Collection, Editing and Usage
5.1
Datasets in SUF
5.1.1
Classification of Datasets in SUF
5.1.2
Description of Datasets by levels
5.1.3
Additional dataset for Websurvey mode
5.1.4
Discontinued data records
5.2
Variables in PASS
5.2.1
System variables
5.2.2
Surveyed variables
5.2.3
Generated variables
5.3
Data Editing in PASS
5.3.1
Overview of Data editing
5.3.2
Structure Checks
5.3.3
Filter Checks and Assignment of Standardised Codes
5.4
Record Linkage to Administrative Data and Additional Data Records Not Part of the SUF
6
PASS in Transition – Major developments and Innovations.
6.1
Additional Refugee Samples and Adaptations in Survey Languages
6.2
Web survey
6.3
Adaptive Design in PASS
6.4
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Fieldwork, Questionnaire, Interviewer Training, and Other Areas
6.4.1
Fieldwork changes
6.4.2
Questionnaire Adjustments
6.4.3
Interviewer Training
6.4.4
Potential Implications for Data Use and Analysis
6.5
Interviewer Monitoring in the PASS Study: Integration into CAPI Fieldwork
References
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PASS User Guide
PASS User Guide
Madhu Chauhan et al.
November 21, 2025
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