This special issue focuses on the modeling and computational aspects of small area estimation. Conference on small area statistics sae2011, 11 to august 2011 the aim of the sae 2011 is to stimulate the current research on small area estimation. Municipalities lled with grey color represent areas with zero sample size. A comparison of small area estimation techniques to estimate selected stand attributes using lidarderived auxiliary variables michael e. Small area estimation via multivariate fayherriot models with latent spatial dependence aaron t. Package josae may 6, 2018 type package title unitlevel and arealevel small area estimation version 0. An overview 5 small area estimation sae aims to overcome the problem that whilst many surveys are designed and undertaken at a nati onal level, practitioners often require information about more local. Evaluations and improvements in small area estimation.
Chambers 2011b developed an estimator for skewly distributed data, and the. Small area estimates have been produced using administrative files or surveys enhanced with administrative. Several related drug measures for which small area estimates are produced are discussed in section a. Pushpal k mukhopadhyay and allen mcdowell, sas institute. Abstract we describe the r package sae for small area estimation. Compared to the direct estimates, sae improve the accuracy level, taking into account the values of the variable of interest observed on sample units of an area, said macro area, containing the small area in the current and in the previous editions of the survey, allowing to increase the actual sample size to calculate the estimates.
Pdf producing small area estimation using r in the romanian. Small area estimation sae has been implemented for. Small area estimation in r with application to mexican income. Introduction statistical surveys are often designed to provide data that allow reliable estimation for the whole country and larger administrative units such as regions. The brfss sae method uses 4 data sets the brfss, the american community survey public use microdata sample, nielsen claritas population totals, and the missouri census. Smallarea estimation sae is a set of techniques well suited to estimation of forest attributes for small areas in which the existing sample size is small and auxiliary information is available. Introduction small area estimation sae methods are statistical techniques that borrow strength from auxiliary information to estimate desired parameters more precisely than by direct estimation. Small area estimation sae of survey data down to small area level has. Small area estimation using esds government surveys. The rsae package provides the function saemodel to set up a model.
License gpl2 needscompilation no repository cran datepublication 20200301 11. The small area estimation sae of poverty in rural bhutan was prepared with an objective to provide a more disaggregated picture of poverty in bhutan down to the gewog level, based on the bhutan living standard survey 2007 and population and housing census of bhutan phcb 2005. Both sets of 20102011 small area estimates then were compared with the 20112012 small area estimates, and findings from these comparisons were summarized. Introduction to small area estimation sae package developers 22nd january 2007 1 introduction in this vignette we will describe an example on how to produce small area estimates using di.
Trier august 2011 page 4 small area estimation and benchmarking. A stata package for unit level small area estimation. Pdf the author begins with a general assessment of the mission of the national. This paper presents a new family of stata functions devoted to small area estimation. A short introduction to the small area estimation problem. Package sae march 1, 2020 type package title small area estimation version 1.
Small area estimation technical report 3 authors and acknowledgements. When the sample size is not enough to provide reliable estimates at a very particular level, the power of models and auxiliary information must be applied with no hesitation. A methodological approach to small area estimation for the. Chambers, chandra and tzavidis 2011 develop conditional bias robust. Small area estimation using area level models and estimated sampling variances. Small area estimation in r with application to mexican. Pdf development of small area estimation in official statistics.
Introduction small area estimation sae is a methodology for producing estimates for a more detailed level of geography than estimates using direct survey estimation. Pcd provides an open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others who strive to improve the health of the public through chronic disease prevention. Pushpal k mukhopadhyay and allen mcdowell, sas institute inc. Calibration in ncph 2011 small area estimation in ncph 2011 literature the objective of the census the ncph 2011 methodology the fullscale survey sample survey the fullscale survey 1 the fullscale survey involved population and housing, and was conducted with the use of administrative. The small area estimation sae methods included in the r package sae have applications in many different. This paper describes an application of small area estimation sae. Small area estimation for survey data analysis using sas software. Small area estimation modelling methods have been applied to the 2011 skills for life survey data in order to generate local level area estimates of the. Selected sae methods were compared for estimating a variety of forest attributes for small areas using ground data and light detection and ranging. The drawback of such adaptation of the non sae methodology is that inevitably the estimation of the bias correction terms for. Small area estimation and microsimulation modeling is the first practical handbook that comprehensively presents modern statistical sae methods in the framework of ultramodern spatial microsimulation modeling while providing the novel approach of creating synthetic spatial microdata. Spatial fayherriot models for small area estimation with. Multilevel regression and poststratification for smallarea. Chambers, chandra and tzavidis 2011 develop conditional biasrobust.
Description a collaborative effort of government of nepalcentral bureau of statistics cbs and the world bank group, the nepal small area estimation of poverty, 2011 presents the result of small area estimation sae technique which is an advanced and cost effective statistical technique that gives estimates of poverty for smaller areas by mixing the results of latest results. New important developments in small area estimation arxiv. Small area estimation, second edition is an excellent reference for practicing statisticians and survey methodologists as well as practitioners interested in learning sae methods. Trier august 2011 page 1 calibration of small area estimates in business surveys rodolphe priam, natalie shlomo southampton statistical sciences research institute university of southampton united kingdom sae, august 2011 the blueets project is financed by the grant agreement no. The beyond 2011 programme at the office for national statistics and the future of. Small area estimation in pt nuts 3 european commission. Popular techniques for small area estimation use implicit or explicit statistical models to indirectly estimate the small area parameters of interest. Apr 16, 2017 small area estimation sae has become a widely used technique in official statistics since the last decade of past century. The second edition is also an ideal textbook for graduatelevel courses in sae and reliable small area statistics.
Small area estimation sae of survey data down to small area level has become an increasingly widespread activity as scholars and policymakers have sought to gain ever more detailed spatial information to better target interventions or resources and to evaluate local policy impacts. The package also includes small area estimation methods based on the basic unit level model called the nestederror. Small area estimation of employment and unemployment for. Estimation for a geographic area or population domain when the sample size does not provide precise direct estimates. An empirical artificial population and sampling design for. Next, before discussing general issues of small area estimation sae in official. One of the challenges often faced in forestry is the estimation of forest attributes for smaller areas of interest within a larger population. For a comprehensive account of sae techniques, seerao2003. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the opportunities risen in the romanian official statistics to develop a longway but strong implementation of the small area estimation techniques, together. Introduction to small area estimation small area estimation in r application to mexican income data conclusion r packages for sae other packages i bayessae for arealevel models in bayesian context i saerobust for robust area level models i saery and sae2 for arealevel models with time e ects i sae for a wide variety of sae methods including arealevel and unitlevel models for the mean as. Sometimes, we use small area estimation with small domain estimation. Rising interest in measuring progress at a local level. Calibration of small area estimates in business surveys rodolphe priam, natalie shlomo southampton statistical sciences research institute university of southampton united kingdom sae, august 2011 the blueets project is financed by the grant agreement no.
Both sets of 2010 2011 small area estimates then were compared with the 2011 2012 small area estimates, and findings from these comparisons were summarized. The focus of the conference is either theoretical and methodological developments or practical applications of small area estimation methods. Computer applications for small area estimation, part 1 jerzy wieczorek small area estimation research group, csrm 11720 outline basic approach for continuous arealevel data the estimates we need and how to get them sas example by hand with proc regand datasteps sas example automated with proc mixed further. From feasibility to implementation, by soon song 3 1.
A comparison of smallarea estimation techniques to. Small area estimation sae offers a means of estimating indicators. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areassubpopulations. Pdf small area estimation sae was first studied at statistics canada in the seventies.
The r package sae is mainly designed for modelbased small area estimation. Aps6 small area estimation report 4 2 small area estimation. Guidelines on small area estimation for city statistics and other. The drawback of such adaptation of the nonsae methodology is that inevitably the estimation of the bias correction terms for. A stata package for unit level small area estimation english abstract. Compared to the direct estimates, sae improve the accuracy level, taking into account the values of the variable of interest observed on sample units of an area, said macroarea, containing the small area in the current and in the previous editions of the survey, allowing to increase the actual sample size to. Small area estimation with zeroinflated data a simulation. A comparison of smallarea estimation techniques to estimate. Holan2 abstract the fayherriot model is a standard model for direct survey estimators in which the true quantity of interest, the superpopulation mean, is latent and its estimation is improved.
Small area estimation via multivariate fayherriot models. Introduction to small area estimation bias project. When this happens, small area estimation sae methods can be used. In this paper, a sae model is used to compute the mean household equivalised income and the head count ratio for the 57 labor local systems of the tuscany region in italy for the year 2011.
Modelbased estimates are widely used in sae as they represent a way to borrow strength across locations and thereby reduce the mean squared errors mse of the small area estimates rao, 2003. Robust and nonparametric methods in sae bayesian methods in sae, spatial and spatiotemporal methods. Pdf producing small area estimation using r in the. In the labour force survey, small area estimation sae constitutes an alternative to direct estimation, because sample size is designed to produce estimates at nuts 2 level. The report concludes with a guide to how the local area estimates are presented in a series of excel data files section 0, and a brief. Small area estimation of sports participation at msoa. Small area estimation of cancer risk factors and screening. Bayesian hierarchical models for small area data with applications in social science guangquan li nicky best sylvia richardson department of epidemiology and biostatistics imperial college london ncrm and sra joint event series in 2011 may 11, 2011 g.
The problem of small area estimation sae is how to pro duce reliable estimates. Calibration and small area estimation methods in polish. Sae application, one may add area specific bias correction term to the initial predictor for small area parameter, a method explored by chambers et al. Mar 26, 2020 small area estimation using area level models and estimated sampling variances. Small area estimation is important in survey analysis when domain subpopulation sample sizes are too small to provide adequate precision for direct domain estimators. Small area estimation in pt nuts 3 2 application of a mixed logistic model based on the ons methodology where p ij is the probability of unemployment variables i name are dummy indicators x ij is ththe logit of the proportion of the unemployment in the i age interval and the thj nuts 3 and u is the random effect in the area. A significant contribution in this field is publication issued in 2011 by. Computer applications for small area estimation, part 1 jerzy wieczorek small area estimation research group, csrm 11720. Currently, the package includes the following robust i. Motivation direct estimators do not allow for the production of statistical indicators with enough precision, due to the small sample size in certain areas. Small area estimation sae has become a widely used technique in official statistics since the last decade of past century. Small area estimation sae was first studied at statistics canada in the seventies.
Jul 14, 2016 the aims of this study were to 1 describe a new brfss small area estimation sae method and 2 investigate the internal and external validity of the brfss saes it produced. Annkristin kreutzmann 3 18 small area estimation in r ntts 2017. The papers submitted to this special issue should deal with one or more of the following topics. An r package for small area estimation the r journal.
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