Table 4.

Summary of simulation results for descriptive estimands when imputing both geography and nongeography. Q stands for the population values; ME and MSE stand for the median and mean square error of q̄₅ across the 100 simulations

Estimand	ZIP	Q	h = 1		h = 5		h = 10
			ME	MSE	ME	MSE	ME	MSE
% black	Z1	61.1	59.6	2.4	56.2	4.9	55.7	5.6
	Z2	41.1	43.4	1.6	41.8	1.7	40.8	1.0
	Z3	32.6	33.7	1.7	34.0	2.0	35.5	3.0
	Z4	13.5	13.4	0.9	13.6	0.9	13.7	0.9
	Z5	46.2	44.8	1.9	43.8	2.7	42.8	3.6
	Z6	12.9	15.2	2.5	16.4	3.7	16.3	3.5
	Z7	51.3	52.6	1.9	53.9	2.9	55.5	4.8
% with educ. > 14.5	Z1	19.9	18.9	1.8	20.0	1.3	21.8	2.2
	Z2	9.6	7.5	2.3	7.4	2.3	8.1	1.6
	Z3	10.9	9.9	1.4	10.6	0.9	13.0	2.2
	Z4	28.3	29.3	1.6	27.8	1.1	28.1	0.8
	Z5	36.6	37.5	1.6	38.9	2.8	38.2	1.9
	Z6	25.8	26.5	1.6	26.7	1.8	27.3	2.0
	Z7	30.9	32.8	2.6	32.0	1.9	31.8	1.7
Avg. age	Z1	65.8	67.6	1.9	68.7	2.9	69.1	3.4
	Z2	66.2	68.4	2.3	68.7	2.5	68.6	2.4
	Z3	71.4	70.9	0.6	70.5	1.0	70.1	1.3
	Z4	72.5	71.6	0.9	71.3	1.2	71.2	1.3
	Z5	71.1	70.0	1.2	69.8	1.3	69.8	1.3
	Z6	72.1	71.3	1.0	71.4	0.8	71.5	0.7
	Z7	69.4	69.4	0.5	69.5	0.5	69.7	0.6