Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)

Font Size:  Small  Medium  Large

Handling attrition and non-response in longitudinal data

Harvey Goldstein

Abstract


Procedures for handling attrition and missing data in longitudinal studies are discussed. A multiple imputation (MI) strategy is developed that can be applied to complex multilevel data. It is both general and statistically efficient and estimation software is available. An example of its use is given.


Full Text: PDF

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.