A contribution on the nature and treatment of missing data in large market surveys

Gary Madden, María Rosalía Vicente, Paul Rappoport and Andy Banerjee

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 22, 2179-2187

Abstract: Nonresponse (or missing data) is often encountered in large-scale surveys. To enable the behavioural analysis of these data sets, statistical treatments are commonly applied to complete or remove these data. However, the correctness of such procedures critically depends on the nature of the underlying missingness generation process. Clearly, the efficacy of applying either case deletion or imputation procedures rests on the unknown missingness generation mechanism. The contribution of this article is twofold. The study is the first to propose a simple sequential method to attempt to identify the form of missingness. Second, the effectiveness of the tests is assessed by generating (experimentally) nine missing data sets by imposed missing completely at random, missing at random and not missing at random processes, with data removed.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1234699

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