--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Chao Yawo wrote:
> So the missing values result from interview errors, and the
> errors are not related to my DV. In fact, the DV had only
> 161 missing variables.
This is something you can check (assume that rep78 is your
unsafe sex variable and mpg is your dependent variable ):
*------ begin example ------
sysuse auto, clear
gen mis = missing(rep78)
logit mis mpg
*------- end example -------
> If I ignore the errors on that single IV then it implies I
> will have to accept the lower N (sample size) my analysis,
> and explain that in my write-up (that changes in sample
> size for the regression result from missing values on some
> of the covariates??
This is very common, look up some leading empirical
publications in your discipline to see what the most common
formulation in your discipline is. You can do more: you have
reason why your missing data is not related to your dependent
variable, and you checked that, and the Allison reference I
gave in my previous post explains why your results are not
biased by these missing values.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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