My questionnaire has 35 questions and the first one is the Country (Uganda, Kenya or Tanzania).
A number of respondents prefered the web-enabled version using SurveyMonkey to the hard copy. However, a number of respondents simply selected the Country, saved the template but did not proceed any further, despite a few reminders.
Should such responses be included as "Missing Data" and proceed to carry out Multiple Imputation?
Other respondents answered at least 7 questions.
Missing data points are data. Silence is response. It should tell you a lot about the target. Simply, pause and ask, what’s happening here? The answer will be a trove of data. Best wishes and we should look forward to your paper.
In some cases, the missingness was caused by respondent exiting online questionnaire prematurely while additional questions were loading. I will indicate the statistics in the final paper.
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