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Abstract #304380

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Activity Number: 146
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 8, 2005 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #304380
Title: The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study: Multiple Imputations for the Missing Fathers
Author(s): Soma Roy*+ and Elizabeth A. Stasny
Companies: The Ohio State University and The Ohio State University
Address: 404 Cockins Hall, Columbus, OH, 43210, United States
Keywords: survey ; predictions ; incomplete dataset ; marriage expectation
Abstract:

In this paper, we study survey data on fragile families ("unmarried parents who are raising their children together" [Mincy 1994, Mincy and Pouncy 1997]) from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study. In about 22% of the cases, the birth father was not present to be interviewed. We first explore the data to investigate whether missingness is at random and then evaluate the effect that missing data might have on analyses and inferences based on the data. We perform multiple imputations for the missing cases and compare the inferences drawn from the incomplete dataset to those drawn from the multiply-imputed dataset. We also explore the second wave of data to see whether we can make predictions about the future of the relationship of the parents. Findings from our analyses to date include missingness is not at random, inference that ignores missing cases might be dangerous, and we tend to mostly overestimate the women's marriage expectation if we use the data from interviewed fathers only.

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