Computing Population Weights for the EFH Survey

Carlos Madeira
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Felipe Labbé () and Alberto Naudon ()

Working Papers Central Bank of Chile from Central Bank of Chile

Abstract: This paper explains the trade-off between bias and variance in the choice of expansion factors for the Chilean Financial Household Survey (EFH). I outline several alternatives for the expansion factors assigned to each household in the EFH. The alternatives are based on a full post-stratification procedure using as strata different groups of Chile’s geographical regions, the wealth of each town, and the income level of each household. I find that expansion factors based on a small number of strata can accurately represent the age, education and income distribution of Chile with little bias and variance involved.

Date: 2011-06
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