I agree with Craig's suggestion to use IVEware. It is much better than norm etc for categorical data.
I assume that you were using the facilities in MI that pull back the imputed normal values to categories. When I tried to use this a couple of years back using SAS 8.1 (and also 8.2) there were some nasty bugs that would result in errors in a few variables, but not always and sporadically. What happened was that sometimes I would find a handful of non-missing data had been replaced. I sent all kinds of messages to SAS about this but did not get much joy from them, just saying that the procedure was unsupported, so I gave up and fudged that problem in some other way. HAs anyone else on this list had similar problems? And are they fixed now? SInce then I have found IVEware much better. It will do everything that MI does and more, though it is a bit harder to use. I started to write some notes as a bit of an idiots guide to it, but they are still incomplete. The only problem I faced with it ws the need to ensure that all continuous variables were approximately centred to avoid computational difficulties. Good luck Gillian Raab Edinburgh
