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- Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214480Description:
We consider the problem of estimating the “cost weights” and “relative importances” of different item strata for the local market basket areas. The estimation of these parameters is needed to construct the U.S. Consumer Price Index Numbers. We use multivariate models to construct composite estimators which combine information from relevant sources. The mean squared errors (MSE) of the proposed and the existing estimators are estimated using the repeated half samples available from the survey. Based on our numerical results, the proposed estimators seem to be superior to the existing estimators.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214481Description:
Using data from a survey of U.S. Census Bureau interviewers, this paper examines whether experienced interviewers achieve higher response rates than inexperienced interviewers, controlling for differences in survey design and attributes of the populations assigned to them. After demonstrating that the relationship is positive and curvilinear, it attempts to explain the mechanisms by which experienced interviewers achieve these rates and elaborate the nature of the relationship. It examines what behaviors and attitudes underlie the higher success, with the hope that they might be instilled in trainees.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214482Description:
Motivated by a business survey design at Statistics Canada, we formulate the problem of sample allocation for a general two-phase survey design as a constrained nonlinear programming problem. By exploiting its mathematical structure, we propose a solution method that consists of iterations between two subproblems that are computationally much simpler. Using an approximate solution as a starting value, the proposed method works very well in an empirical study.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214483Description:
In almost all large surveys, some form of imputation is used. This paper develops a method for variance estimation when single (as opposed to multiple) imputation is used to create a completed data set. Imputation will never reproduce the true values (except in truly exceptional cases). The total error of the survey estimate is viewed in this paper as the sum of sampling error and imputation error. Consequently, an overall variance is derived as the sum of a sampling variance and an imputation variance. The principal theme is the estimation of these two components, using the data after imputation, that is, the actually observed values and the imputed values. The approach is model assisted in the sense that the model implied by the imputation method and the randomization distribution used for sample selection will together determine the appearance of the variance estimators. The theoretical findings are confirmed by a Monte Carlo simulation.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214484Description:
Maximum likelihood estimation from complex sample data requires additional modeling due to the information in the sample selection. Alternatively, pseudo maximum likelihood methods that consist of maximizing estimates of the census score function can be applied. In this article we review some of the approaches considered in the literature and compare them with a new approach derived from the ideas of ‘weighted distributions’. The focus of the comparisons is on situations where some or all of the design variables are unknown or misspecified. The results obtained for the new method are encouraging, but the study is limited so far to simple situations.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214485Description:
Godambe and Thompson (1986) define and develop simultaneous optimal estimation of superpopulation and finite population parameters based on a superpopulation model and a survey sampling design. Their theory defines the finite population parameter, \theta_N, as the solution of the optimal estimating equation for the superpopulation parameter \theta; however, some other finite population parameter, \phi, may be of interest. We propose to extend the superpopulation model in such a way that the parameter of interest, \phi, is a known function of \theta_N, say \phi = f (\theta_N). Then \phi is optimally estimated by f (\theta_s), where \theta_s is the optimal estimator of \theta_N, as given by Godambe and Thompson (1986), based on the sample s and the sampling design.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214486Description:
Resampling methods for inference with complex survey data include the jackknife, balanced repeated replication (BRR) and the bootstrap. We review some recent work on these methods for standard error and confidence interval estimation. Some empirical results for non-smooth statistics are also given.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - 8. Robust model-based methods for analytic surveys ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200214487Description:
This paper reviews the idea of robustness for randomisation and model-based inference for descriptive and analytic surveys. The lack of robustness for model-based procedures can be partially overcome by careful design. In this paper a robust model-based approach to analysis is proposed based on smoothing methods.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200214488Description:
In many finite population sampling problems the design that is optimal in the sense of minimizing the variance of the best linear unbiased estimator under a particular working model is bad in the sense of robustness - it leaves the estimator extremely vulnerable to bias if the working model is incorrect. However there are some important models under which one design provides both efficiency and robustness. We present a theorem that identifies such models and their optimal designs.
Release date: 1992-12-15 - 10. Job-related moves ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992004101Geography: CanadaDescription:
The characteristics of people who moved in 1987 to look for work, start a new job or take a transfer are profiled.
Release date: 1992-12-01
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- Table: 95F0168XDescription:
The "Profiles" series provides a statistical overview of various census geographic areas. Part A provides basic demographic, mother tongue, dwelling, household and family data collected from all households, that is, on a 100% basis.
Release date: 1992-09-15 - 2. 1991 Census: Profile of Census Tracts - Part A ArchivedProfile of a community or region: 95F0171XDescription:
The "Profiles" series provides a statistical overview of various census geographic areas. Part A provides basic demographic, mother tongue, dwelling, household and family data collected from all households, that is, on a 100% basis.
Release date: 1992-09-15 - Profile of a community or region: 95F0173XDescription:
The "Profiles" series provides a statistical overview of various census geographic areas. Part A provides basic demographic, mother tongue, dwelling, household and family data collected from all households, that is, on a 100% basis.
Release date: 1992-09-15
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- 21. Bibliography on capture-recapture modelling with application to census undercount adjustment ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200114494Description:
This article presents a selected annotated bibliography of the literature on capture-recapture (dual system) estimation of population size, on extensions to the basic methodology, and the application of these techniques in the context of census undercount estimation.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - 22. The creation of a residential address register for coverage improvement in the 1991 Canadian census ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200114495Description:
The Address Register is a frame of residential addresses for medium and large urban centres covered by Geography Division’s Area Master File (AMF) at Statistics Canada. For British Columbia, the Address Register was extended to include smaller urban population centres as well as some rural areas. The paper provides an historical overview of the project, its objective as a means of reducing undercoverage in the 1991 Census of Canada, its sources and product, the methodology required for its initial production, the proposed post-censal evaluation and prospects for the future.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - Articles and reports: 12-001-X199200114496Description:
The Population Estimates Program of Statistics Canada has traditionally been benchmarked to the most recent census, with no allowance for census coverage error. Because of a significant increase in the level of undercoverage in the 1986 Census, however, Statistics Canada is considering the possibility of adjusting the base population of the estimates program for net census undercoverage. This paper develops and compares four estimators of such a base population: the unadjusted census counts, the adjusted census counts, a preliminary test estimator, and a composite estimator. A generalization of previously-proposed risk functions, known as the Weighted Mean Square Error (WMSE), is used as the basis of comparison. The WMSE applies not only to population totals, but to functions of population totals such as population shares and growth rates between censuses. The use of the WMSE to develop and evaluate small-area estimators in the context of census adjustment is also described.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - 24. Hierarchical and empirical Bayes methods for adjustment of census undercount: The 1988 Missouri dress rehearsal data ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200114497Description:
The present article discusses a model-based approach towards adjustment of the 1988 Census Dress Rehearsal Data collected from test sites in Missouri. The primary objective is to develop procedures that can be used to model data from the 1990 Census Post Enumeration Survey in April, 1991 and smooth survey-based estimates of the adjustment factors. We have proposed in this paper hierarchical Bayes (HB) and empirical Bayes (EB) procedures which meet this objective. The resulting estimators seem to improve consistently on the estimators of the adjustment factors based on dual system estimation (DSE) as well as the smoothed regression estimators.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - 25. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimation in empirical Bayes smoothing of census undercount ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200114498Description:
One way to assess the undercount at subnational levels (e.g. the state level) is to obtain sample data from a post-enumeration survey, and then smooth those data based on a linear model of explanatory variables. The relative importance of sampling-error variances to corresponding model-error variances determines the amount of smoothing. Maximum likelihood estimation can lead to oversmoothing, so making the assessment of undercount over-reliant on the linear model. Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimators do not suffer from this drawback. Empirical Bayes prediction of undercount based on REML will be presented in this article, and will be compared to maximum likelihood and a method of moments by both simulation and example. Large-sample distributional properties of the REML estimators allow accurate mean squared prediction errors of the REML-based smoothers to be computed.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - 26. Should we have adjusted the U.S. census of 1980? ArchivedArticles and reports: 12-001-X199200114499Description:
This paper reviews some of the arguments for and against adjusting the U.S. census of 1980, and the decision of the court.
Release date: 1992-06-15 - 27. Alimony and child support ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992002115Geography: CanadaDescription:
A study of alimony and child support payments in Canada, according to selected characteristics of both recipients and payers.
Release date: 1992-06-03 - 28. Workers on the move: Hirings ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992002116Geography: CanadaDescription:
An article on general hiring trends and the factors affecting them, for the year 1988.
Release date: 1992-06-03 - 29. The changing profile of dual-earner families ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992002148Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article profiles the evolution of dual-earner families from 1967 to 1989. Changes in some of the relationships between the labour force participation of wives and the labour market experience of husbands are examined, as are family characteristics such as the presence of children.
Release date: 1992-06-03 - 30. Studying on the job ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992002160Geography: CanadaDescription:
Using the results of the 1990 Adult Education and Training Survey, worker training is described in terms of the characteristics of paid workers who received part-time training from their employers, the industries they worked in, the jobs they held, and the subjects they studied.
Release date: 1992-06-03
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- 1. Alternative measures of unemployment ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X1992004140Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study illustrates quarterly trends in unemployment rates based on alternative measures. By all of the indicators studies there was an overall increase in unemployment during the early 1990s.
Release date: 1992-12-01
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