Indirect Sampling: A Review of Theory and Recent Applications

Hans Kiesl

AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 2016, vol. 10, issue 4, No 6, 289-303

Abstract: Abstract Survey practitioners regularly face the task to draw a sample from a (sub-) population for which no sampling frame exists. Indirect sampling might be a way out in such situations, given that connections exist between the target population and another population for which probability sampling is feasible. While the theory of indirect sampling originated in the context of household panel studies, a wider area of applications emerged during the last decade. We first give a short review of the theory of indirect sampling, show that estimators from indirect samples might have smaller variance than the corresponding direct estimators (contrary to some claims in the literature), summarize recent applications and discuss some issues that are relevant for applying indirect sampling in practice. We also present some theory for unbiased estimation after an additional subsampling stage that was necessary for sampling kindergarten children in the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).

Keywords: Educational survey; Sampling theory; Indirect sampling; Bildungserhebung; Stichprobenverfahren; Indirekte Auswahl (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11943-016-0183-3

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