Juillard, Hélène, Chauvet, Guillaume and Ruiz-Gazen, Anne (2017) Estimation under cross-classified sampling with application to a childhood survey. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 112 (518). pp. 850-858.

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Identification Number : 10.1080/01621459.2016.1186028

Abstract

The cross-classified sampling design consists in drawing samples from a twodimension population, independently in each dimension. Such design is commonly used in consumer price index surveys and has been recently applied to draw a sample of babies in the French Longitudinal Survey on Childhood, by crossing a sample of maternity units and a sample of days. We propose to derive a general theory of estimation for this sampling design. We consider the Horvitz-Thompson estimator for a total, and show that the cross-classified design will usually result in a loss of efficiency as compared to the widespread two-stage design. We obtain the asymptotic distribution of the Horvitz-Thompson estimator, and several unbiased variance estimators. Facing the problem of possibly negative values, we propose simplified non-negative variance estimators and study their bias under a superpopulation model. The proposed estimators are compared for totals and ratios on simulated data. An application on real data from the French Longitudinal Survey on Childhood is also presented, and we make some recommendations. Supplementary materials are available online.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: 2017
Refereed: Yes
Place of Publication: New York
Uncontrolled Keywords: analysis of variance, Horvitz-Thompson estimator, independence, invariance, Sen-Yates-Grundy estimator, two-stage sampling
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2017 11:07
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:54
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:31513
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/23080

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