Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4235
Publication type: Conference paper
Type of review: Not specified
Title: Small area estimation in R with application to Mexican income data
Authors: Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin
Pannier, Sören
Rojas-Perilla, Natalia
Schmid, Timo
Templ, Matthias
Tzavidis, Nikos
DOI: 10.21256/zhaw-4235
Page(s): 1
Pages to: 5
Conference details: NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Language: English
Subjects: SAE; Small area; EBP; Poverty; Inequality
Subject (DDC): 510: Mathematics
Abstract: In the last decades policy decisions are often based on statistical measures. The more detailed this information is, the better is the basis for targeting policies and evaluating policy programs. For instance, the United Nations suggest more disaggregation of statistical indicators for monitoring their Sustainable Development Goals and also the number of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) that notice the need of more disaggregated statistics is increasing. Dimensions for disaggregation can be characteristics of the individuals or households like sex, age or ethnicity, economic activity or spatial dimensions like metropolitan areas or districts. Primary data sources for variables that are used to estimate statistical indicators are national household surveys. However, sample sizes are usually small or even zero at disaggregated levels. Therefore, direct estimators based only on survey data can be unreliable or not available for small domains. While the option of more specific surveys is costly, model-based methodologies for dealing with small sample sizes can help to obtain reliable estimates for small domains. The so-called Small Area Estimation (SAE) methods [1,2] link survey data that is only available for a proportion of households with administrative or census data available for all households in the area of interest. Even though a wide range of SAE methods is proposed by academic researchers, these are, so far, applied only by a small number of NSIs or other practitioners like the World Bank. This gap between theoretical possibilities and practical application can have several reasons. One reason can be the lack of suitable statistical software. The free software environment R helps to counteract this issue since researchers can make their codes available to the public via packages. Thus, new methods can reach the practitioner faster than with non-free software. The next two sections summarize which packages are already available and what could be improved in the future.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5694
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): Not specified
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design (IDP)
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Kreutzmann, A.-K., Pannier, S., Rojas-Perilla, N., Schmid, T., Templ, M., & Tzavidis, N. (2017). Small area estimation in R with application to Mexican income data [Conference paper]. NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4235
Kreutzmann, A.-K. et al. (2017) ‘Small area estimation in R with application to Mexican income data’, in NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, pp. 1–5. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4235.
A.-K. Kreutzmann, S. Pannier, N. Rojas-Perilla, T. Schmid, M. Templ, and N. Tzavidis, “Small area estimation in R with application to Mexican income data,” in NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017, 2017, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4235.
KREUTZMANN, Ann-Kristin, Sören PANNIER, Natalia ROJAS-PERILLA, Timo SCHMID, Matthias TEMPL und Nikos TZAVIDIS, 2017. Small area estimation in R with application to Mexican income data. In: NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017. Conference paper. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. 2017. S. 1–5
Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin, Sören Pannier, Natalia Rojas-Perilla, Timo Schmid, Matthias Templ, and Nikos Tzavidis. 2017. “Small Area Estimation in R with Application to Mexican Income Data.” Conference paper. In NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017, 1–5. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4235.
Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin, et al. “Small Area Estimation in R with Application to Mexican Income Data.” NTTS New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Brussels, Belgium, 13-17 March 2017, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, 2017, pp. 1–5, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4235.


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