Missing data occurs frequently in agricultural household surveys, which can lead to biased and inefficient regression estimates. Multiple-imputation can be used to overcome the missing-data problem. Previous studies applied multiple-imputation to datasets, where only some of the variables have...

This presentation introduces a set of Stata programs designed to match individuals from year-to-year in the Current Population Survey (CPS) using a distance based measure of similarity . Unlike panel data, the CPS is a repeated cross section of geographic residences, which are continually...

Competing-risk models are survival models in which there is more than one type of event of interest. In the case where events can be treated as occurring at discrete, regularly-spaced times, it is relatively simple to estimate models for the hazard rates and to account for left-truncation and...