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Activity Number: 512
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #313024 View Presentation
Title: Iterative Hot-Deck Multiple Imputation with a Distance-Based Donor Method for the Current Population Survey
Author(s): Allison Zotti*+ and Kelly Mathews and T. Trang Nguyen
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Keywords: Multiple Imputation ; Iterative Hot-Deck
Abstract:

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a leading source for labor force data for the US. CPS produces such statistics as the national unemployment rate and other economic and employment statistics. CPS currently uses a hot-deck single imputation method to fill in any missing data. Single imputation methods do not incorporate the additional variation introduced using imputation into variance estimates, but multiple imputation methods can account for this added variation. To investigate the amount of variance underestimation, an iterative hot-deck multiple imputation method (Siddique, 2008) is used to impute the missing data from the 2012 CPS data. The results are compared to the current CPS method by comparing each methods' estimate of variance and examining the bias by determining the predictive, distributional, and estimation accuracy of the imputed data. Because the rates of item missing-ness are low for CPS, different rates of missing-ness will be imposed on the data to determine at what rate of missing-ness the added variance due to imputation is not significant.


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