We assess the evolution of consumption inequality in Canada over the years 1997 to 2009. We correct the imputation of shelter consumption for homeowners to allow for unobserved differences in housing quality correlated with selection into rental tenure, and we account for measurement error in this imputation. Using the Surveys of Household Spending 1997-2009, we find that household-level consum...

There has been a growing interest regarding generalized classes of distributions in statistical theory and practice because of their flexibility in model formation.Multiple imputation under such distributions that span a broader area in the symmetry–kurtosis plane appears to have the potential of better capturing real incomplete data trends. In this article, we impute continuous univariate data...

Data about cities is today available from a multitude of sources at high volumes and rates; a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectorial data processing and analysis has become more and more pervasive to better understand urban evolution. Statistical datasets, together with other (big) data related to cities, can be employed to semantically explore and characterize the urban space. In this paper, w...

Some participants in income and labor market surveys fail to report their earnings. If the procedure used to impute missing earnings is biased, then imputation bias is substituted for nonresponse bias. We use data on imputed and reported wages for the same workers, taken from the 1989 change in the CPS processing system, to distinguish and measure three biases in earnings equations: reporting b...

is called an imputation of the game; i t is interpreted as a possible set of payments to the players. The term coalition is used for any non-empty set of players (who are thought to cooperate in the playing of the game); any proper partition of I, will be called a coalition structure. The symbols I, , v, X, xi with and without primes will be used throughout with the above meanings. S and T will...

In this article we consider the estimation of population mean when some observations on the study characteristic are missing in the bivari ate sample data In all ve estimators are presented and their e ciency properties are discussed One estimator arises from the the amputation of incomplete observations while the remaining four estimators are formu lated using inputed values obtained by the ra...

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Multiple imputation, as described by Rubin, has seen a wide variety of applications. Counterexamples, presented by Fay (1991), and new methods, such as those of J.N.K. Rao and J. Shao, that can asymptotically disagree with the multiple imputation approach, have raised questions about the validity of multiple imputation. This paper identifies critical restrictions on the practical application of...

The helpful comments of John Fallon, Michael Blake and George Tzanidakis of the QCA are gratefully appreciated. However the views expressed here are those of the author.