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An Analysis Of Nonignorable Nonresponse In A Survey With A Rotating Panel Design, Caterina Giusti, Roderick J. Little

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Missing values to income questions are common in survey data. When the probabilities of nonresponse are assumed to depend on the observed information and not on the underlining unobserved amounts, the missing income values are missing at random (MAR), and methods such as sequential multiple imputation can be applied. However, the MAR assumption is often considered questionable in this context, since missingness of income is thought to be related to the value of income itself, after conditioning on available covariates. In this article we describe a sensitivity analysis based on a pattern-mixture model for deviations from MAR, in the context …