Re: st: imputing continuous values when respondents select categories, e.g., income category

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 05:33 PM 4/23/2009, Alan Acock wrote:
> This is a question for an econometrician or anybody else who has a 
> good way to estimate a continuous value for income when respondents 
> select a category, such as 0-5000, 5001 - 9999, 10000 - 25,000, etc. 
> Note categories

Alan, can you clarify the question a bit?  Do you mean

(a) you want to impute values when income is missing
(b) data are not missing but you want to substitute a value within 
the given range, e.g. if they are in the range 0-5000 you want to 
plug in values like 3289, 4163, etc.

Also, is income a dependent or independent variable?  If dependent, 
you might consider intreg.

I think the variety of answers so far reflects the fact that 
different people have interpreted your question differently.


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