[amelia] cross national dataset imputation

Dear Amelia users, I wish to know what is the treatment Amelia does with cross national datasets. I'm using the fourth wave of the European Values Study (a European version of the WVS). THe same question are asked in different countries. I would like to impute data on household income. The rate of missingness ranges 8% to 48% across countries and also the predictive power of my predictors changes across countries. Does Amelia take into account that? I made some tests with the country variable set as cross section variable or not, but it didn't change so much. I read an article that made use of multiple imputation with Amelia on a multinational dataset (Linos, K. & West, M. 2003 Self-interest, Social Beliefs, and Attitudes to Redistribution, ESR) but there are not details on this issue. Does anybody knows how to deal with that? Thanks Renzo -- Renzo Carriero, PhD Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società Lungo Dora Siena 100 10153 Torino - Italy +390116702617 (office) Room 3D310 --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com