Paper #590

Title:

Estimadores compuestos en estadística regional: aplicación para la tasa de variación de la ocupación en la industria

Authors:

Àlex Costa, Albert Satorra and Eva Ventura

Date:

December 2001

Abstract:

This work is part of a project studying the performance of model based estimators in a small area context. We have chosen a simple statistical application in which we estimate the growth rate of accupation for several regions of Spain. We compare three estimators: the direct one based on straightforward results from the survey (which is unbiassed), and a third one which is based in a statistical model and that minimizes the mean square error.

Keywords:

Borrowing strength, empirical best linear unbiased prediction, mean square error, synthetic estimation

JEL codes:

C42, C43, J21

Area of Research:

Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Published in:

Qüestió, 26, 1-2, (2002), pp. 213-243

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