An improved estimator to analyse missing data

Missing data due to nonresponse, though undesirable, is a reality of any survey. In this paper we consider a situation in which, at a given time, observations are missing for one of the several auxiliary characteristics; thus the ‘missing’ phenomenon occurs for the characteristics separately but not simultaneously. A new method, making use of all the available observations, is proposed. A simulation study based on three real populations was performed to test the proposed technique.