Thank you so much! Imputation doesn’t seem to come up as much in the discourse about polling (and it’s not used very much in public opinion research) so it’s not something I’ve written about. But it wouldn’t surprise me if someone has done a short explainer on the topic already.

Thanks. I am trying to explain why we impute demographic characteristics that are used in weighting. Definitely in the weeds. And hoping for a source that I can point someone too. (They also had questions about oversampling and I am sending them your piece)

I remember Raghu once telling us that back in the 70's or 80's, when imputation methods were started to being developed, a lot of researchers would refuse using it because they thought they were just fabricating data, without any scientific basis.

Maybe @stephenjwild.bsky.social knows of something?