The new strategy for the concise presentation of sampling errors in the Italian Structural Business Statistics Survey |
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Authors: | Piero Demetrio Falorsi Salvatore Filiberti Antonio Pavone |
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Institution: | (1) Servizio progettazione e supporto metodologico nei processi di produzione statistica, Istat, via Magenta, 2, Roma, Italy;(2) Servizio delle Statistiche strutturali sulle imprese industriali e dei servizi, Istat, via Tuscolana, 1788 Roma, Italy |
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Abstract: | Reporting sampling errors of survey estimates is a problem that is commonly addressed when compiling a survey report. Because of the vast number of study variables or population characteristics and of interest domains in a survey, it is almost impossible to calculate and to publish the standard errors for each statistic. A way of overcoming such problem would be to estimate indirectly the sampling errors by using generalized variance functions, which define a statistical relationship between the sampling errors and the corresponding estimates. One of the problems with this approach is that the model specification has to be consistent with a roughly constant design effect. If the design effects vary greatly across estimates, as in the case of the Business Surveys, the prediction model is not correctly specified and the least-square estimation is biased. In this paper, we show an extension of the generalized variance functions, which address the above problems, which could be used in contexts similar to those encountered in Business Surveys. The proposed method has been applied to the Italian Structural Business Statistics Survey case. |
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Keywords: | Generalized variance functions Design effect Business survey |
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