Estimating Unemployment-Rates for Small Areas – A Simulation-Based Approach

The estimation of Austrian unemployment rates is based on data of the labour force survey (LFS). It is possible to calculate direct, design based estimates with fixed precision for population subgroups for which the sample size is known due to the sampling design. Sometimes we are interested to e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernhard Meindl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-04-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/313