How to Use SPSS- Replacing Missing Data Using the Expectation Maximization (EM) Technique

[@katierapson4686]

Hi - Thanks for the tutorial, very useful. However, I am having trouble in that SPSS is only replacing values for my quantitative variables, and not for my categorical ones. Even the help screen on SPSS says that only quantitative variables can be imputed! I wondered whether it's because the Missing Values Analysis requests replacement of missing values based on a normal distribution. Some of my categorical variables have large skews which is not unexpected, but might this be why SPSS can't/won't impute the missing values for these variables? If so, do you have any guidance as to how to get missing values for these? many thanks

[@tacappaert]

+Katie Rapson Are you using numeric codes for your categorical outcomes? If not, you should. If you are, then change the variable in the Variable view box to nominal.