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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 459–470.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Vicki A. Freedman; Douglas A. Wolf Abstract Multiple imputation is a relatively new technique for dealing with missing values on items from survey data. Rather than deleting observations for which a value is missing, or assigning a single value to incomplete observations, one replaces each missing...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 May 1991
... of occurrence or their age at the time of the event. The World Fertility Survey Group decided to handle the problem of poor date reporting by using a computer program to impute the missing information. This article illustrates the effect of these imputation procedures on cross-national differentials...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1475–1485.
Published: 25 June 2018
... evidence based on U.S. Census data indicates a slowdown in the rate of earnings assimilation. We find that the pace of immigrant wage convergence based on recent data may be understated in the literature as a result of the method used by the census to impute missing information on earnings, which does...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 329–354.
Published: 16 December 2014
...Jennifer Van Hook; James D. Bachmeier; Donna L. Coffman; Ofer Harel Abstract Researchers have developed logical, demographic, and statistical strategies for imputing immigrants’ legal status, but these methods have never been empirically assessed. We used Monte Carlo simulations to test whether...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1061–1074.
Published: 15 May 2012
...Greg Kaplan; Sam Schulhofer-Wohl Abstract We show that much of the recent reported decrease in interstate migration is a statistical artifact. Before 2006, the Census Bureau’s imputation procedure for dealing with missing data in the Current Population Survey inflated the estimated interstate...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Marcelo Castillo; Alexandra Hill; Thomas Hertz Abstract We evaluate the performance of a widely used technique for imputing the legal immigration status of U.S. immigrants in survey data—the logical imputation method. We validate this technique by implementing it in a nationally representative...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2327–2335.
Published: 29 October 2020
... depending on the method used to infer legal status in survey data, focusing on two approaches in particular: (1) inferring legal status using a logical imputation method that ignores the existence of legal-status survey questions (logical approach); and (2) defining legal status based on survey questions...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 399–407.
Published: 01 August 1999
... only of kinship network sizes and intermarriage levels by race. This model allows a crude estimation of the frequency of multiracial kinship networks. Second, I produce more precise empirical estimates using a new hot-deck imputation method for synthesizing kinship networks from household-level survey...
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in A Weighty Issue: Diminished Net Nutrition Among the U.S. Working Class in the Nineteenth Century
> Demography
Published: 12 May 2015
Fig. 3 Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Average heights used for imputed weights are 66.96 inches for blacks and 67.47 inches for whites. Average insolation used for imputed heights are 4.35 hours per day for blacks and 4.02 hours per day for whites
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in Differential Survival in Europe and the United States: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival
> Demography
Published: 01 November 2011
Fig. 4 Differential subjective survival by wealth across countries: estimates and their 95% confidence intervals. Missing probabilities of survival and 50% answers were replaced with imputed values for this estimation
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Unwed fathers’ ability to pay child support: New estimates accounting for multiple-partner fertility
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 May 2009
...)00141-4 Rich L.M. ( 2001 ). Regular and Irregular Earnings of Unwed Fathers: Implications for Child Support Practices . Children and Youth Services Review , 23 , 353 – 76 . 10.1016/S0190-7409(01)00139-6 Royston P. ( 2004 ). Multiple Imputation of Missing Values . The Stata...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2361–2368.
Published: 15 October 2020
... and Parolin acknowledge concerns about measurement error and address them by imputing some income from government programs. Efforts to address underreporting using microsimulation models, however, do not accurately allocate imputed benefits to true recipients. Moreover, recent studies that relied on linked...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1903–1921.
Published: 01 December 2023
... yielded a 54.0% response rate of the 23,929 sample addresses. The remaining 46.0% of cases were filled using administrative record allocation and imputation. We imputed population totals for nonresponding households using three administrative data sources that could be linked directly with housing...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 February 1986
... reject the omission explanation at this time. 62 DEMOGRAPHY,volume 23, number 1, February 1986 Imputation When dates of events such as marriage or births were not reported by the respondent, they were "imputed". Trussell (1984) describes the stages in the survey process at which imputation can occur...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1207–1233.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and empirical analysis. We focus on the age range 23–50 because it captures women's prime working age and the years when most partnership and fertility events occur and ensures that most women had completed their education before trajectory measurement. We impute missing data using multiple imputations...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1715–1730.
Published: 01 December 2024
... but are imperfect ( Guo 1993 ). Discarding all left-censored observations ( Allison 1984 ) is simple but involves a potentially large loss of information ( Cai et al. 2006 ). As an alternative, Cai et al. (2006) suggested imputing the duration of left-censored observations. However, the imputation method...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 23–43.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., Graduate School of Public Health . Raghunathan T.E. , Reiter J.P. , & Rubin D.B. ( 2003 ). Multiple Imputation for Disclosure Limitation . Journal of Official Statistics , 19 , 1 – 16 . Raghunathan, T.E., P.W. Solenberger, and J. Van Hoewyk. 2007. IVEware: Imputation...
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in Family Structure Experiences and Child Socioemotional Development During the First Nine Years of Life: Examining Heterogeneity by Family Structure at Birth
> Demography
Published: 15 March 2017
Fig. 1 Proportion of children experiencing stable family structures and family structure transitions from birth to age 9, by family structure at the child’s birth. Computed from weighted data from 10 imputed data sets from FFCW
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 749–776.
Published: 15 April 2016
... (Allison 2001 ; Little and Rubin 1987 ; Rubin 1976 ). Statistically appropriate responses to survey nonresponse can include approaches such as multiple imputation and weighting to account for missing data. Variables associated with survey nonresponse for youth and young adults are similar...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1477–1498.
Published: 16 August 2016
... not participating in the PISA or TIMSS testing programs, we perform multiple imputation by chained equations to impute their country-level mean test scores from a set of seven demographic and economic development country-level indicators maintained by the Population Reference Bureau and the World Bank...
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