On aligned composite estimates from overlapping samples for growth rates and totals

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Paul Knottnerus^Note 1

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Abstract

When monthly business surveys are not completely overlapping, there are two different estimators for the monthly growth rate of the turnover: (i) one that is based on the monthly estimated population totals and (ii) one that is purely based on enterprises observed on both occasions in the overlap of the corresponding surveys. The resulting estimates and variances might be quite different. This paper proposes an optimal composite estimator for the growth rate as well as the population totals.

Key Words: Business surveys; Coefficient of variation; General restriction estimator; Kalman equations; Panels; Variances.

Table of content

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Two estimators for the growth rate of the total turnover
• 3. Reasons for a large interval I⁹⁵_STN
• 4. Composite estimator for the growth rate
• 5. Aligned composite estimators for growth rates and totals
• 6. Extensions
• 7. Conclusions and discussion
• Acknowledgements
• Appendix
• References

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