Hi Listers
I have data on household expenditure. Households bought "x" kgs (quan) of
food crops (exp) worth a certain amount of money (unitvalu). However, I
have cases where the quantity bought is missing (either because the
household couldn't recall or an error in data collection) however the
amount spent by these households is known. The variables are
lc1code housecode exp quan unitvalu
11233 112331 566 1 500
I would like to replace the missing quantities purchased with community
(lc1code) averages. If the lc1code, food item (exp), unitvalu are the same
then we can deduce the quantity (quan) that can be purchased by that
amount of money. What I now want to do is to replace all missing
quantities with a value imputed from community averages. To make it more
clear
If we know that 500/= buys 1kg of cassava in a given community, then a
respondent in the community who spends 500/= on cassava should
automatically be purchasing 1kg.
I want to write a code that would automatically execute this for all
missing cases however, I can't figure out where to start. I would
appreciate any help.
Roni
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