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Seddig, Maskileyson, & Davidov (2018). "The comparability of measures in the ageism module of the fourth round of the European Social Survey, 2008-2009." Survey Research Methods.

- Data from the European Social Survey (ESS) round 4 are available free of charge after registration at:
  http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org
- The data set "ESS4e04_4.dta" is used in conjunction with the "ESS_miss.do" do file
- To export the data to Mplus use the following Stata code:
  keep v20frnd v20comp v20mrst v20resp v70frnd v70comp v70mrst v70resp predage lkrspag trtbdag cntry
  stata2mplus cntry-trtbdag using "YOUR_FOLDER\data"
- To install the "stata2mplus" command type "search stata2mplus" into the Stata console and install the ado file
- We provide all Mplus syntax used in the current study as supplementary files