Two Simple Methods to Improve Official Statistics for Small Subpopulations

Many important statistics are known from official records for the entire population, but have to be estimated for subpopulations. I describe two simple data combination methods that reduce the substantial sampling error of the commonly used direct survey estimates for small subpopulations. The first...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikolas Mittag
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Survey Research Association 2018-12-01
Series:Survey Research Methods
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Online Access:https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7309