Abstract
Sandra A. West, Shail Butani, and Michael Witt (1990)
"Alternative Imputation Methods for Wage Data",
Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American
Statistical Association, 254-259.
This paper compares different methods of imputating
establishment wage data. The methods include regression
modeling and distribution modeling with maximum likelihood
estimators for the parameters, as well as standard procedures
such as ratio adjustment and hot deck. Multiple imputation
procedures are also developed and examined. In all, ninety
procedures, each using three sample designs, are examined.
Wage and employment data used for this study are obtained
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics census of establishments.
Different nonresponse patterns are simulated. The
effectiveness of the various imputation methods is measured
both at the micro and macro level.
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