Double-calibration estimators accounting for under-coverage and nonresponse in socio-economic surveys
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Publication:6318463
DOI10.1007/S10260-022-00630-9arXiv1905.03530MaRDI QIDQ6318463FDOQ6318463
Authors: Maria Michela Dickson, Giuseppe Espa, Lorenzo Fattorini, Flavio Santi 
Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract: Under-coverage and nonresponse problems are jointly present in most socio-economic surveys. The purpose of this paper is to propose a completely design-based estimation strategy that accounts for both problems without resorting to models but simply performing a two-step calibration. The first calibration exploits a set of auxiliary variables only available for the units in the sampled population to account for nonresponse. The second calibration exploits a different set of auxiliary variables available for the whole population, to account for under-coverage. The two calibrations are then unified in a double-calibration estimator. Mean and variance of the estimator are derived up to the first order of approximation. Conditions ensuring approximate unbiasedness are derived and discussed. The strategy is empirically checked by a simulation study performed on a set of artificial populations. A case study is lead on Danish data coming from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey. The strategy proposed is flexible and suitable in most situations in which both under-coverage and nonresponse are present.
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