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Handling missing values in longitudinal panel data is crucial. Imputation improved event-history analysis estimates but offered modest gains for fixed-effects models, guiding best practices for incomplete survey data.

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  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Demography

Background:

  • Longitudinal panel data analysis presents challenges with missing values due to attrition and incomplete measures.
  • Handling missing data is critical for accurate statistical inference in studies tracking individuals over time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review key issues and methods for analyzing longitudinal panel data with missing values.
  • To compare the impact of data imputation on fixed-effect regression and event-history analyses.

Main Methods:

  • Applied review of statistical methods for missing data in panel studies.
  • Utilized simulated data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course Study (4 waves, n=2,034).
  • Compared fixed-effect regression and event-history analysis with and without data imputation.

Main Results:

  • Data imputation yielded improved estimates in event-history analysis.
  • Imputation provided only modest improvements for fixed-effects analysis estimates and standard errors.
  • Differences in imputation effectiveness were examined across analytical approaches.

Conclusions:

  • The effectiveness of imputation for missing longitudinal panel data varies by statistical method.
  • Recommendations are provided for researchers on handling missing values in panel data analysis.
  • Careful consideration of analytical methods is needed when addressing missing data in longitudinal studies.