Combining information from multiple complex surveys - ARCHIVED

Articles and reports: 12-001-X201400214089

Description:

This manuscript describes the use of multiple imputation to combine information from multiple surveys of the same underlying population. We use a newly developed method to generate synthetic populations nonparametrically using a finite population Bayesian bootstrap that automatically accounts for complex sample designs. We then analyze each synthetic population with standard complete-data software for simple random samples and obtain valid inference by combining the point and variance estimates using extensions of existing combining rules for synthetic data. We illustrate the approach by combining data from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

Issue Number: 2014002
Author(s): Dong, Qi; Elliott, Michael R.; Raghunathan, Trivellore E.

Main Product: Survey Methodology

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