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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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Household energy expenditure and consumption patterns in the United States
Develo** policies for a greener society calls for understanding the energy consumption patterns of its households. Using data from the Bureau of...
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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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Does education protect families' well-being in times of crisis? Measurement issues and empirical findings from IT-SILC data
This study analyses the relationship between education and material well-being from a longitudinal perspective using the European Survey on Income...
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Visualization and Spatial Statistical Analysis for Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey
In this study, the data of Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2006 (VHLSS2006) were used as microdata level data to find out some relations...
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Estimating causal effects of community health financing via principal stratification
When a treatment cannot be enforced, but only encouraged, noncompliance naturally arises. In applied economics, the common empirical strategy for...
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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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Bayesian finite-population inference with spatially correlated measurements
Community-based public health interventions often rely on representative, spatially referenced outcome data to draw conclusions about a finite...
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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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Small area estimation of health insurance coverage for Kenyan counties
Health insurance is important in disease management, access to quality health care and attaining Universal Health Care. National and regional data on...
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The Impact of the Hungarian Retail Debt Program
This paper presents an analysis of both the past and future of the Hungarian retail debt program from a cost-risk standpoint. A quarter of the...
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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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Consistency of the MLE under a two-parameter Gamma mixture model with a structural shape parameter
Finite Gamma mixture models are often used to describe randomness in income data, insurance data, and data in applications where the response values...
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Understanding of Causes of Spurious Associations: Problems and Prospects
This paper contributes to the social science literature when analyzing survey or time series data social scientists use spurious regression without...
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Regression Decomposition Technique Toward Finding Intra-household Gender Bias of Calorie Consumption
From the data on total consumption of households, it is not possible to find the intra-household disparity in the consumption pattern among the...
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Treatment of sample under-representation and skewed heavy-tailed distributions in survey-based microsimulation: An analysis of redistribution effects in compulsory health care insurance in Switzerland
The credibility of microsimulation modeling with the research community and policymakers depends on high-quality baseline surveys. Quality problems...
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Analysis of Expenditure Patterns of Virtual Marriage Households Consisting of Working Couples Synthesized by Statistical Matching Method
This paper explores the impact of male and female living together, namely “marriage.” We applied the statistical matching method and estimate the...
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Bias Calibration for Robust Estimation in Small Areas
It is well known that the existence of outliers in a sample can significantly affect the estimation of population parameters. Intuition suggests that...
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Diet Quality and Food Sources in Vietnam: First Evidence Using Compositional Data Analysis
Food environments have been evolving rapidly in lower-middle-income countries. Nevertheless, little is known about the impact of these changes on...