Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics

This paper aims to compare the current sample design of the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the SAS environment and the sample design with generalized Lavallee-Hidiroglou method of strata construction in the R environment. The sample for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey consists of all enterprises wit...

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Main Authors: Ivana Jurina, Lidija Gligorova
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Language:English
Published: Romanian National Institute of Statistics 2017-11-01
Series:Revista Română de Statistică
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Online Access:http://www.revistadestatistica.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/RRS-4_2017_A03.pdf
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description This paper aims to compare the current sample design of the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the SAS environment and the sample design with generalized Lavallee-Hidiroglou method of strata construction in the R environment. The sample for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey consists of all enterprises with 10 or more employees and the stratified random sample of enterprises with less than 10 employees. Stratification is made by the principal activity and by the number of employees. Allocation is done by applying the Neyman allocation method and the allocation variable is retail trade turnover. Using the strata.LH function from the stratification-package in R, optimal stratum boundaries with restriction to a certain economic activity group are determined, using the number of employees as a stratification variable and the retail trade turnover as a survey variable. In one case, the same level of precision for the estimated total turnover is taken into account and in another one, optimal stratum boundaries with the given sample size are determined. Furthermore, the results with different models, which take into account the discrepancy between stratification and survey variables, are compared.
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spelling doaj.art-6d97134cebac44c6a136522d59719e012022-12-22T02:38:54ZengRomanian National Institute of StatisticsRevista Română de Statistică1018-046X1844-76942017-11-016544156Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of StatisticsIvana Jurina0Lidija Gligorova1Croatian Bureau of StatisticsCroatian Bureau of StatisticsThis paper aims to compare the current sample design of the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the SAS environment and the sample design with generalized Lavallee-Hidiroglou method of strata construction in the R environment. The sample for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey consists of all enterprises with 10 or more employees and the stratified random sample of enterprises with less than 10 employees. Stratification is made by the principal activity and by the number of employees. Allocation is done by applying the Neyman allocation method and the allocation variable is retail trade turnover. Using the strata.LH function from the stratification-package in R, optimal stratum boundaries with restriction to a certain economic activity group are determined, using the number of employees as a stratification variable and the retail trade turnover as a survey variable. In one case, the same level of precision for the estimated total turnover is taken into account and in another one, optimal stratum boundaries with the given sample size are determined. Furthermore, the results with different models, which take into account the discrepancy between stratification and survey variables, are compared.http://www.revistadestatistica.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/RRS-4_2017_A03.pdfMonthly Retail Trade Surveystrata constructionoptimal boundariesdiscrepancy
spellingShingle Ivana Jurina
Lidija Gligorova
Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
Revista Română de Statistică
Monthly Retail Trade Survey
strata construction
optimal boundaries
discrepancy
title Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
title_full Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
title_fullStr Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
title_full_unstemmed Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
title_short Determination of the Optimal Stratum Boundaries in the Monthly Retail Trade Survey in the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
title_sort determination of the optimal stratum boundaries in the monthly retail trade survey in the croatian bureau of statistics
topic Monthly Retail Trade Survey
strata construction
optimal boundaries
discrepancy
url http://www.revistadestatistica.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/RRS-4_2017_A03.pdf
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