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Improving small area estimation by combining surveys: new perspectives in regional statistics.

Alex Costa, Albert Satorra, Eva Ventura (2006)

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A national survey designed for estimating a specific population quantity is sometimes used for estimation of this quantity also for a small area, such as a province. Budget constraints do not allow a greater sample size for the small area, and so other means of improving estimation have to be devised. We investigate such methods and assess them by a Monte Carlo study. We explore how a complementary survey can be exploited in small area estimation. We use the context of the Spanish Labour...

Sampling design variance estimation of small area estimators in the Spanish Labour Force survey.

Montserrat Herrador, Domingo Morales, María Dolores Esteban, Ángel Sánchez, Laureano Santamaría, Yolanda Marhuenda, Agustín Pérez (2008)

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The main goal of this paper is to investigate how to estimate sampling design variances of modelbased and model-assisted small area estimators in a complex survey sampling setup. For this purpose the Spanish Labour Force Survey is considered. Sample and aggregated data are taken from the Canary Islands in the second trimester of 2003 in order to obtain some small area estimators of ILO unemployment totals. Several problems arising from the application of standard small area estimation...

Almost unbiased ratio and product-type estimators in systematic sampling.

R. Singh, H. P. Singh (1998)

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In this paper we have suggested almost unbiased ratio-type and product-type estimators for estimating the population mean Y of the study variate y using information on an auxiliary variate x in systematic sampling. The variance expressions of the suggested estimators have been obtained and compared with usual unbiased estimator y*, Swain's (1964) ratio estimator y* and Shukla's product estimator y*. It has been shown that the proposed estimators are more efficient than usual unbiased...

An empirical evaluation of small area estimators.

Álex Costa, Albert Satorra, Eva Ventura (2003)

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This paper compares five small area estimators. We use Monte Carlo simulation in the context of both artificial and real populations. In addition to the direct and indirect estimators, we consider the optimal composite estimator with population weights, and two composite estimators with estimated weights: one that assumes homogeneity of within area variance and squared bias and one that uses area-specific estimates of variance and squared bias. In the study with real population, we found...

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I. Molina, D. Morales (2009)

Boletín de Estadística e Investigación Operativa. BEIO

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