Jon, See Andrew Gelman’s paper with Kink and Liu on imputation of questions not asked and my discussion of it. It has some connection. David Meyer (now president of AIR) also did some related work back in the late 80s (as I recall) on imputing scores on college entrance exams for people who opted not to take the exams.
--Dave Judkins, D. R. (1998). Comment on “Not asked and not answered: Multiple Imputation for multiple surveys,” an article by Gelman, King and Liu. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 861-864. From: Impute -- Imputations in Data Analysis [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mohr Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Papers on treatment of "not applicable" responses? Hi folks, This question is not specifically related to multiple imputation, but I thought folks might have suggested readings from the missing data literature on treatment of "not applicable" responses. For example, some measures have respondents rate characteristics of relationships with various family members, and items might be left blank if the respondent did not grow up with--for example--a father. On the one hand, it seems odd to treat such responses as missing (and apply modern missing data techniques to them). On the other hand, if such items are believed to be indicators of a larger construct (e.g., conflictual family relationships), then it seems as though it might be okay to treat N/A responses as missing. I haven't seen this issue addressed much in published papers, but I thought I'd see if I may have missed something. I'd be interested in any leads people can share. Thanks, Jon -- ***Please note change of email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>*** Jonathan Mohr Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Biology-Psychology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4411 Office phone: 301-405-5907 Fax: 301-314-5966 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended solely for the addressee. Please do not read, disseminate or copy it unless you are the intended recipient. If this message has been received in error, we kindly ask that you notify the sender immediately by return email and delete all copies of the message from your system.
