A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data: Details and Extensions. (August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Blackwell, Matthew; Honaker, James; King, Gary
• Is Part Of: Sociological methods & research. Volume 46:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 342
• Page End: 369
• Publication Date: 2017-08
• Subjects: missing data -- measurement error -- imputation -- multiple overimputation; Sociology -- Research -- Periodicals; Sociology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 301.072
• DOI: 10.1177/0049124115589052
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0049-1241

Abstract

We extend a unified and easy-to-use approach to measurement error and missing data. In our companion article, Blackwell, Honaker, and King give an intuitive overview of the new technique, along with practical suggestions and empirical applications. Here, we offer more precise technical details, more sophisticated measurement error model specifications and estimation procedures, and analyses to assess the approach's robustness to correlated measurement errors and to errors in categorical variables. These results support using the technique to reduce bias and increase efficiency in a wide variety of empirical research.