Standard error estimation and related sampling issues
Standard error estimation and related sampling issues
Given that all the indicators based on EU‐SILC are sample estimates, they should be reported along with estimates of standard errors and confidence intervals, particularly if the indicators are used for policy decisions. It is crucial to take the sampling variance into account when using sample estimates to monitor poverty and social exclusion, otherwise small changes in estimates may be wrongly interpreted as real changes in the population. Commission Regulation (EC) No 28/2004 of 5 January 2004, regarding the detailed content of intermediate and final EU‐SILC Quality reports, requires that standard error estimates shall be provided by countries along with the EU‐SILC main target indicators. In this chapter, we develop a practicable set of recommendations for computing standard errors both at data producers’ level (National Statistics Institutes — NSIs) and data users’ level (non NSIs).
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Berger, Yves
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Osier, Guillaume
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Goedeme, Tim
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2017
Berger, Yves
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Osier, Guillaume
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Goedeme, Tim
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Berger, Yves, Osier, Guillaume and Goedeme, Tim
(2017)
Standard error estimation and related sampling issues.
In,
Atkinson, Anthony B., Guio, Anne-Catherine and Marlier, Eric
(eds.)
Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe.
Luxembourg.
Publications Office of the European Union, .
(doi:10.2785/60152).
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Given that all the indicators based on EU‐SILC are sample estimates, they should be reported along with estimates of standard errors and confidence intervals, particularly if the indicators are used for policy decisions. It is crucial to take the sampling variance into account when using sample estimates to monitor poverty and social exclusion, otherwise small changes in estimates may be wrongly interpreted as real changes in the population. Commission Regulation (EC) No 28/2004 of 5 January 2004, regarding the detailed content of intermediate and final EU‐SILC Quality reports, requires that standard error estimates shall be provided by countries along with the EU‐SILC main target indicators. In this chapter, we develop a practicable set of recommendations for computing standard errors both at data producers’ level (National Statistics Institutes — NSIs) and data users’ level (non NSIs).
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Guillaume Osier
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Tim Goedeme
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Anthony B. Atkinson
Editor:
Anne-Catherine Guio
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Eric Marlier
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