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Bridging techniques in the redesign of the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth
The design of the Bank of Italy’s Survey on Household Income and Wealth was revised in 2020 to reduce non-sampling errors in households’ income and...
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Using poverty maps to improve the design of household surveys: the evidence from Tunisia
In this paper we aim to propose a new method for improving the design effect of household surveys based on a two-stage design in which the first...
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A Framework for Investigating Microdata Quality, with Application to South African Labour Market Household Surveys
This chapter identifies a framework for investigating microdata quality that is particularly useful to researchers working with public-use micro...
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If the tools to gather information affect data quality: violence against women survey case
National victimization surveys, and among them women's safety surveys, are recognized as an important tool for gaining insight into many aspects of...
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Statistical matching of sample survey data: application to integrate Iranian time use and labour force surveys
Survey data are still contemplated as one of the main sources in official statistics. However, due to the high cost of conducting a survey, as well...
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Small area estimation of average compositions under multivariate nested error regression models
This paper investigates the small area estimation of population averages of unit-level compositional data. The new methodology transforms the...
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Introduction to Modern Survey Analytics
There are two things, it is often said, that you cannot escape: death and taxes. This is too narrow because there is a third: surveys. You are...
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Area Frame Household Surveys
This chapter discusses sampling designs and related issues for conducting household surveys using area frames and face-to-face interviews, through a...
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Adaptive sampling design for the Italian social sample surveys: an application on the population census
The aim of the paper is to show how a new survey design based on Responsive-Adaptive Survey Designs (RADs) can be adapted to the context of...
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Housing Analysis
This chapter delves into one of the most important sectors in an economy and in planning, housing. Housing has significant impact on the household,...
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A split questionnaire survey design in the context of statistical matching
In this paper, we tackle the problem of splitting a long (potentially time consuming) questionnaire into two parts, where each participant only...
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An Optimized Selection of Statistical Disclosure Control Methods—A Case Study Involving Microdata from the Polish Survey of Accidents at Work
The growing demand for increasingly detailed statistical data and the need to protect statistical confidentiality requires the use of a variety of...
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Hidden Markov models for longitudinal rating data with dynamic response styles
This work deals with the analysis of longitudinal ordinal responses. The novelty of the proposed approach is in modeling simultaneously the temporal...
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Spatial Change of Support Models for Differentially Private Decennial Census Counts of Persons by Detailed Race and Ethnicity
Official statistical agencies have an obligation to protect the confidentiality of their respondents. Traditionally, the task of disclosure avoidance...
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The Relationship Between Household Assets and Choice to Work: Evidence From Japanese Official Microdata
This research uses individual data from Japan’s National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure to examine the impact of residential area and real...
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Survey Data Analysis
In previous chapters, we discussed the notions of samples and populations. After defining the population of interest, we drew a sample and used the...
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Improving the design of the Italian permanent population and housing census: a transition towards a massive use of administrative data
The permanent population and housing census (PPHC) has been designed according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) modernization...
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The impact of local cost-of-living differences on relative poverty incidence: an application using retail scanner data and small area estimation models
Estimating economic poverty indicators at the local level is essential for well-targeted data-driven welfare policies. However, Italy is a country...
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Estimating the prevalence of anemia rates among children under five in Peruvian districts with a small sample size
In this paper we attempt to answer the following question: “Is it possible to obtain reliable estimates for the prevalence of anemia rates in...
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A dynamic model for ranking-based conjoint analysis with no-choice options
In ranking data analysis, it is common for all preference ranks to be obtained in each trial. However, if there is a no-choice option in alternatives...
