Estimating Cross-Classified Population Counts of Multidimensional Tables: An Application to Regional Australia to Obtain Pseudo-Census Counts

Suesse Thomas (), Namazi-Rad Mohammad-Reza, Mokhtarian Payam and Barthélemy Johan
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Suesse Thomas: National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathametics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
Namazi-Rad Mohammad-Reza: National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathametics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
Mokhtarian Payam: Damian Group, Fairfax Media, Sydney2009 NSW, Australia
Barthélemy Johan: SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

Journal of Official Statistics, 2017, vol. 33, issue 4, 1021-1050

Abstract: Estimating population counts for multidimensional tables based on a representative sample subject to known marginal population counts is not only important in survey sampling but is also an integral part of standard methods for simulating area-specific synthetic populations. In this article several estimation methods are reviewed, with particular focus on the iterative proportional fitting procedure and the maximum likelihood method. The performance of these methods is investigated in a simulation study for multidimensional tables, as previous studies are limited to 2 by 2 tables. The data are generated under random sampling but also under misspecification models, for which sample and target populations differ systematically. The empirical results show that simple adjustments can lead to more efficient estimators, but generally, at the expense of increased bias. The adjustments also generally improve coverage of the confidence intervals. The methods discussed in this article along with standard error estimators, are made freely available in the R package mipfp. As an illustration, the methods are applied to the 2011 Australian census data available for the Illawarra Region in order to obtain estimates for the desired three-way table for age by sex by family type with known marginal tables for age by sex and for family type.

Keywords: Census data; IPFP; Log-linear model; model-based inference; count estimation; synthetic population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/jos-2017-0048

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