Development of standard error estimation methods in complex household sample surveys in Poland

Jan Kordos; Agnieszka Zięba

doi:https://doi.org/10.59170/stattrans-2010-016

Development of standard error estimation methods in complex household sample surveys in Poland

Jan Kordos Warsaw School of Economics. , Agnieszka Zięba Warsaw School of Economics. Statistics in Transition new series, vol. 11, 2010, 2, pages: 231-252 Published online: 1 October 2010 https://doi.org/10.59170/stattrans-2010-016

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ABSTRACT

The authors begin with a general description of estimation methods of standard error and confidence interval from complex household sample surveys in Poland. The following estimation methods have been applied in resent years: (i) the interpenetrating sub-samples, (ii) the Taylor series linearization, (iii) the jackknife, (iv) the balanced repeated replication, and (v) the bootstrap methods. A short development of each method is presented and its application in the Polish household sample surveys described. At the end some concluding remarks are given.

KEYWORDS

interpenetrating samples, Taylor series linearization, random groups, balanced repeated replication, jackknife, bootstrap, complex sample surveys.

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