Impute Command in Stata 11

[Thomas Cooke]

I am replicating a paper from 15 years ago, which used the impute - not mi impute - command. I cannot find any documentation other than the short version with "help impute". Briefly, does anyone know the default methodology?

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Stata 11 was a long time ago indeed. Do you need exactly the same methodology? I would be surprised if the functionality of the old -impute- could not be replicated with the -mi- suite or a community-contributed command like -ice-.

[Richard Williams]

Impute was pretty bad, although it seemed ok way back when. See

https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc73994/MD01.pdf

especially the section that starts on p. 8. Also pp. 4-5.

[Thomas Cooke]

The impute command does work, but it is no longer supported. I just needed to know the technique, and from what I have seen here, it is indeed "pretty bad". I was able to reproduce the results, but I just wanted to know what "impute" was doing. Not much.

But I will point out my real issue. I am using "oaxaca" and it does not support mi impute. Sort of stuck.

[Richard Williams]

mi estimate does support the cmdok option. Have you tried using it?