Advances and Applications in Statistics
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 169 - 179
(June 2014)
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INTRODUCTION TO SAMPLING DESIGN DATA FILE
Seppo Laaksonen
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Abstract: The paper first determines the term ‘sampling design file’ that is not commonly used in survey sampling literature. The methodology behind this term is, of course, used to some extent, but only implicitly. Its explicit determination facilitates many things in survey practice and also gives a clear target for one big part of a survey, that is, sampling, fieldwork and finally for estimation. The sampling design file consists of all the gross sample units and its variables include those that give opportunity to create sampling weights, to analyse the survey quality, and to estimate. The file is possible to complete after the fieldwork. Its most important characteristics, including sampling design variables and weights, will be finally merged together with the real survey variables at respondent level, and then the survey analysis is ready to begin. |
Keywords and phrases: auxiliary variables, calibration, data quality, fieldwork, inclusion probability, non-response. |
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