The requirements were established through an expert panel methodology in conjunction with an analysis of relevant literature.
Their analysis is based on the synthetic panel methodology developed by Dang et al. (2014), which is the same we employ in this paper.
Our results differ from those of Ferreira et al. (2013) and Vakis et al. (2015), although they are based on the application of a similar synthetic panel methodology.
For the estimation with panel methodology, it is necessary to determine whether unobserved characteristics, referred previously as domestic policies or attitude of the government with regard to national production, are fixed or random effects.
Annex 5 shows that the variation in the share of urban population is limited between 2003 and 2013, which is necessary for the validity of the rural/urban breakdown of the dynamic analyses based on the pseudo panel methodology.
On the other hand, for the estimation with the sample of eight countries, an OLS regression will be made and, in addition, the data panel methodology will be used.
UPDATE: Piczo's Chris Seth responds: "The fact is that Nielsen has never picked up our numbers to any degree, due to their panel methodology and to the fact that they don't include under 15 in their sample (the audiences for the networks you mention below are all predominantly over 16 now).
The dual panel methodology emphasises the importance of achieving conceptual equivalence of translated items.
Linguistic equivalence is of secondary importance in the dual panel methodology.
However, the consumer panel methodology limits the ability to compare findings with other sodium surveys, which means that its greatest value may be in tracking changes over time.
The dual panel methodology has been shown to produce translations that are more acceptable to patients than forward-backward translations [ 22].
