On Equal-Precision Stratification in Domains Subject to Fixed Sample Size

• Authors: Marcin Kozak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Stratified sampling is one of the most common sampling designs in economic surveys of official statistics. Independent sampling in domains is of special interest for practical reasons; for instance, in Polish economic surveys voivodeships constitute the domains, and in many surveys estimation is required for both the whole country and each voivodeship. The objective of the paper is to present two algorithms for stratification in domains, a population under study is subdivided into, orientated towards minimizing a common value of the coefficients of variation of an estimator considered in the domains, subject to fixed sample size from the whole population. An application of the algorithms and their comparison is presented for an artificial population comprising four domains.

Keywords

EN

Algorithms; Selection of test methods; Statistical methods; Statistics

PL

Algorytmy; Dobór próby badawczej; Metody statystyczne; Statystyka

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Studia Ekonomiczne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 189
• Pages: 7-18

Contributors

author

Marcin Kozak

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ISSN

2083-8611