Hi Felix,
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.
I think that an appropriate way of handling this would be to use the
mean of imputed values within each unit and set each time period to
that value. My intuition is that whichever method you choose will have
very little impact on your final results.
Cheers,
matt.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Bruemmer, Felix <bruemmer(a)dipf.de> wrote:
... and variables measured just on one occasion.
Hello, Amelia authors and users,
I'm doing a longitudinal study on the motivational development after transition to
secondary school. Some constructs, e.g. learning goal orientation, were measured at each
of our three waves. Other characteristics were just measured on one occasion, some because
they ought to be time-invariant (e.g. socioeconomic status), others because new questions
and hypotheses developed after the first results (e.g. about the influence of parental
support).
For using the time series-option, I rearranged my data in SPSS so that I got one cell per
variable and time point, and added a time index-variable. The values of the time-invariant
variables were kept constant over the measurement occasions, e.g. each case got one and
the same value for each time point. Also, I did the same for the other variables that were
just measured on one occasion.
Here is my problem:
The imputations of missings in the time-invariant variables (respectively the one-time
measurements) result in different estimations per time point. How should I deal with this
information? Should I just take the first value or calculate the mean of the values? Or do
I have to deal differently with the problem right from the beginning? Is it adequate to do
with time-invariant variables the same as with time-variant variables just measured on one
occasion?
I would be grateful for some help,
greetings from Germany,
Felix Brümmer
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