Using the Superpopulation Model for Imputations and Variance Computation in Survey Sampling

• Main Authors: Petr Novák, Václav Kosina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Czech Statistical Office 2012-03-01
• Series: Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal
• Subjects: Survey sampling; variance estimation; imputation
• Online Access: http://www.czso.cz/csu/2012edicniplan.nsf/engt/D70047D21D/$File/e-180212q1k5.pdf

This study is aimed at variance computation techniques for estimates of population characteristics based on survey sampling and imputation. We use the superpopulation regression model, which means that the target variable values for each statistical unit are treated as random realizations of a linear regression model with weighted variance. We focus on regression models with one auxiliary variable and no intercept, which have many applications and straightforward interpretation in business statistics. Furthermore, we deal with caseswhere the estimates are not independent and thus the covariance must be computed. We also consider chained regression models with auxiliary variables as random variables instead of constants.