Imputation of categorical missing values

Posted by Blain Waan on Jul 27, 2012; 11:38am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Imputation-of-categorical-missing-values-tp5714496.html

Hello,

I have a data set that has some categorical variables (both binary outcome variables and variables having more than two categories) and some continuous variables.

I can use SPSS to impute missing values for continuous variables by EM algorithm. But how do I impute missing values for the both types of categorical variables? Is there any macro for doing that?

Note that, I will use the complete data set for a factor analysis. So, multiple imputation may create problems to combine the results of each imputed data set. What is your suggestion in this context? Someone has suggested me hot-deck imputation instead. But how do I do this in SPSS?

Thank you.