This paper analyses the sample sizes needed to estimate Laspeyres consumer price subindices under a combination of alternative sample designs, aggregation methods and temporal targets. In a simplified consumer market, the definition of the statistical target has been founded on the...

Currently, the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is the single most important data source for cross-national comparative research on income and living conditions in the European Union. As EU-SILC consists of a sample of European households, point estimates...

In an earlier paper, we presented methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. We demonstrated that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a...

We show how a collection of results in the literature on the empirical estimation of welfare indicators from sample data can be unified. We also demonstrate how some of these ideas can be extended to empirically important cases where the data have been trimmed or censored.

We show how a collection of results in the literature on the empirical estimation of welfare indicators from sample data can be unified. We also demonstrate how some of these ideas can be extended to empirically important cases where the data have been trimmed or censored.

Panel attrition has not only the potential to bias population estimates but it may also inflate the variance of the estimates from panel surveys. Thus it is essential for an ongoing panel survey to monitor not only the size of the panel attrition and the potential biases that may occur but also...

Panel attrition has not only the potential to bias population estimates but it may also inflate the variance of the estimates from panel surveys. Thus it is essential for an ongoing panel survey to monitor not only the size of the panel attrition and the potential biases that may occur but also...