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Estimating the Undercoverage of a Sampling Frame due to Reporting Delays

Estimating the Undercoverage of a Sampling Frame due to Reporting Delays
Estimating the Undercoverage of a Sampling Frame due to Reporting Delays
One of the imperfections of a sampling frame is miscoverage caused by delays in recording real- life events that change the eligibility of population units. For example, new units generally appear on the frame some time after they came into existence and units that have ceased to exist are not removed from the frame immediately. We provide methodology for predicting the undercoverage due to delays in reporting new units. The approach presented here is novel in a business survey context, and is equally applicable to overcoverage due to delays in reporting the closure of units. As a special case, we also predict the number of new-born units per month. The methodology is applied to the principal business register in the UK, maintained by the Office for National Statistics.
M03/08
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
Hedlin, Dan
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Fenton, Trevor
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MacDonald, John W.
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Pont, Mark
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MacDonald, John W.
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Hedlin, Dan, Fenton, Trevor, MacDonald, John W., Pont, Mark and Wang, Suojin (2003) Estimating the Undercoverage of a Sampling Frame due to Reporting Delays (S3RI Methodology Working Papers, M03/08) Southampton, UK. Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton 26pp.

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Abstract

One of the imperfections of a sampling frame is miscoverage caused by delays in recording real- life events that change the eligibility of population units. For example, new units generally appear on the frame some time after they came into existence and units that have ceased to exist are not removed from the frame immediately. We provide methodology for predicting the undercoverage due to delays in reporting new units. The approach presented here is novel in a business survey context, and is equally applicable to overcoverage due to delays in reporting the closure of units. As a special case, we also predict the number of new-born units per month. The methodology is applied to the principal business register in the UK, maintained by the Office for National Statistics.

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Published date: 2003

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Local EPrints ID: 7797
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7797
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Date deposited: 07 Jun 2004
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 04:48

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Author: Dan Hedlin
Author: Trevor Fenton
Author: John W. MacDonald
Author: Mark Pont
Author: Suojin Wang

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