 Missing data and small area estimation in the UK Labour Force SurveyNicholas T. Longford Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2004, vol. 167, issue 2, 341-373 Abstract: Summary. We apply multivariate shrinkage to estimate local area rates of unemployment and economic inactivity by using UK Labour Force Survey data. The method exploits the similarity of the rates of claiming unemployment benefit and the unemployment rates as defined by the International Labour Organisation. This is done without any distributional assumptions, merely relying on the high correlation of the two rates. The estimation is integrated with a multiple‐imputation procedure for missing employment status of subjects in the database (item non‐response). The hot deck method that is used in the imputations is adapted to reflect the uncertainty in the model for non‐response. The method is motivated as a development (improvement) of the current operational procedure in which the imputed value is a non‐stochastic function of the data. An extension of the procedure to subjects who are absent from the database (unit non‐response) is proposed. Date: 2004 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:167:y:2004:i:2:p:341-373 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A is currently edited by A. Chevalier and L. Sharples More articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A from Royal Statistical Society Contact information at EDIRC. |
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