Alternative Methods for CPS Income Imputation
CPS 收入缺失值插补的替代方法
The U.S. Bureau of the Census imputes missing income items in the income supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) by a technique commonly known as the CPS hot deck. This article compares CPS hot deck imputations of wages and salary amounts with alternatives based on regression models for the logarithm of wages and salary and for the wage rate. Comparisons are effected by comparing imputations with an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wages and salary amount found by an…