Imputation issues in SCF datasets

Imputation Issues in SCF datasets

• Imputation with nonlinear models: The word from Rubin
  
• Multiple Imputation in the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances
  Article by Montalto and Sung in 1996 issue of Financial Counseling and Planning plus links to SAS code

There was a panel session on SCF data imputation issues at the 1997 ACCI meeting.

Examples of imputation in the 1995 SCF:

• race status
  
  Variable (x5909) uses -7 to represent other minority except white, black, and Hispanic. Sample Household 1711 has 3 different values for this variable: 5, 5, -7, -7, and 4.
  
  Jie Qin, University of Missouri-Columbia

  
  X5909 Are you Native American, Asian, Hispanic, black, white, or
  another race?
  
  (SHOW CARD 16)
  
  1. Native American/Eskimo/Aleut
  
  2. Asian or Pacific Islander
  
  3. Hispanic
  
  4. Black or African-American
  
  5. White
  
  -7. Other

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