Weighting Procedure of the Austrian Microcensus using Administrative Data

Austrian Journal of Statistics

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Angelika Meraner¹  Daniela Gumprecht¹  Alexander Kowarik¹ 

[1] Statistik Austria

关键词: microcensus;    weighting;    iterative proportional fitting;    variance;    bootstrap.;   

DOI  :  10.17713/ajs.v45i3.120

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Austrian Statistical Society

【 摘 要 】

The Austrian microcensus is the biggest sample survey of the Austrian population, itis a regionally stratied cluster sample with a rotational pattern. The sampling fractionsdier signicantly between the regions, therefore the sample size of the regions is quitehomogeneous. The primary sampling unit is the household, within each household allpersons are surveyed. The design weights are the input for the calibration on populationcounts and household forecasts. It is performed by iterative proportional tting. Untilthe third quarter of 2014 only demographic, regional and household information wereused in the weighting procedure. From the fourth quarter 2014 onwards the weightingprocess was improved by adding an additional dimension to the calibration, namely alabour status generated from administrative data and available for the whole population.Apart from that some further minor changes were introduced. This paper describes themethodological and practical issues of the microcensus weighting process and the varianceestimation applied from 2015 onwards. The new procedure was used for the rst timefor the forth quarter of 2014, published at the end of March 2015. At the same time, allprevious microcensus surveys back to 2004 were reweighted according to the new approach.

【 授权许可】

CC BY