An imputation approach for handling mixed-mode surveys. (English) Zbl 1398.62382

Park, Seunghwan; Kim, Jae Kwang; Park, Sangun

Ann. Appl. Stat. 10, No. 2, 1063-1085 (2016).

Summary: Mixed-mode surveys are becoming more popular recently because of their convenience for users, but different mode effects can complicate the comparability of the survey results. Motivated by the Private Education Expenditure Survey (PEES) of Korea, we propose a novel application of fractional imputation to handle mixed-mode survey data. The proposed method is applied to create imputed values of the unobserved counterfactual outcome variables in the mixed-mode surveys. The proposed method is directly applicable when the choice of survey mode is self-selected. Variance estimation using Taylor linearization is developed. Results from a limited simulation study are also presented.

MSC:

62P25	Applications of statistics to social sciences
62D05	Sampling theory, sample surveys

Keywords:

counterfactual outcome; fractional imputation; measurement error model; missing data; survey sampling

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