Developing a Hot Deck Imputation Procedure for the Annual Economic Integrated Survey

Oregon Convention Center 

Beginning in 2024, the economic directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau will the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES), an economy wide survey that replaces a suite of seven independently designed ongoing surveys. The AIES requirements are informed by the user community's longstanding data needs (e.g. national and sub national tabulations), as well as by extensive respondent research on collection. This presentation provides a detailed overview of the nearest neighbor imputation methodology used for the establishment level collection of the survey. Throughout, I will highlight specific challenges of developing a viable imputation procedure for a new multi-purpose business survey whose collection covers a wide range of economic sectors.