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over 9 years ago
Has anyone ever attempted to "fill-in" the top-coded values for the 5 year ACS PUMS data? For example, in 2009, all of the house values (variable: valp) greater than 4 million dollars in Hawaii get cutoff and it's impossible to tell if the observation you're looking at is a 50 million dollar home or a 4.01 million dollar home - since both look the same. The top-coded cutoff values are different for every year by state combination and I haven't had much luck trying to break through the top-coded value. I've mostly been running linear regressions on the data and am just trying to get a reasonable estimate for each observation that is top-coded. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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William B Vogt
over 9 years ago
Have you tried using models for censored data? One of the outputs you can get from this is the expected value of the dependent variable conditional on the independent variables and the fact that it is censored.
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William B Vogt
over 9 years ago
Have you tried using models for censored data? One of the outputs you can get from this is the expected value of the dependent variable conditional on the independent variables and the fact that it is censored.
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