The Impact of Sampling Designs on Small Area Estimates for Business Data

Evidence-based policy making and economic decision making rely on accurate business information on a national level and increasingly also on smaller regions and business classes. In general, traditional design-based methods suffer from low accuracy in the case of very small sample sizes in certain s...

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Main Authors: Burgard Jan Pablo, Münnich Ralf, Zimmermann Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Official Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0046