Polish Statistical Association
Central Statistical Office of Poland
Subject: Economics, Statistics & Probability
ISSN: 1234-7655
eISSN: 2450-0291
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Angela Luna / Li-Chun Zhang / Alison Whitworth / Kirsten Piller
Citation Information : Statistics in Transition New Series. Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 585-602, DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/stattrans-2015-034
License : (CC BY 4.0)
Published Online: 01-November-2017
This paper addresses the problem of producing small area estimates of Ethnicity by Local Authority in England. A Structure Preserving approach is proposed, making use of the Generalized Structure Preserving Estimator. In order to identify the best way to use the available aggregate information, three fixed effects models with increasing levels of complexity were tested. Finite Population Mean Square Errors were estimated using a bootstrap approach. However, more complex models did not perform substantially better than simpler ones. A mixed-effects approach does not seem suitable for this particular application because of the very small sample sizes observed in many areas. Further research on a more flexible fixed-effects estimator is proposed.