The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

Die statistische Analyse mittels Fernrechnen (Remote Access bzw. Remote Execution) bietet die Möglichkeit, die Mikrodaten in originaler Form zu verwenden. Allerdings ist dabei zu beachten, daß bestimmte statistische Prozeduren, etwa die Verwendung bestimmter Schein-Variablen (dummy variables,...

Questions on income in surveys are prone to two sources of errors that can cause bias if not addressed adequately at the analysis stage. On the one hand, income is considered sensitive information and response rates on income questions generally tend to be lower than response rates for other...