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Handbook on Precision Requirements and Variance Estimation for ESS Household Surveys. Denisa Florescu, Eurostat European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics Vienna, 3-5 June 2014. Contents. Standard formulation of precision requirements
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Handbook on Precision Requirements and Variance Estimation for ESS Household Surveys Denisa Florescu, Eurostat European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics Vienna, 3-5 June 2014
Contents Standard formulation of precision requirements Variance estimation methods and tools Good and bad practices Approaches to compute standard errors for national and EU statistics Guidance to assess the compliance to the requirements
Impact of proportion on the minimum sample size needed to achieve a coefficient of variation of 5 %, under simple random sampling
Evaluation of methods and recommendations using various criteria e.g.: Applicabilityto sampling designs and types of statistics: choice guided by a developed matrix: Variance estimation methods • Suitable methods • Unsuitable methods • References
Approaches to compute standard errors for national and European statistics
Approaches to compute standard errors for national and European statistics
Guidance to assess compliance to requirements Principles of transparency and tolerance 3 strategies: Use of integrated or fully centralised approach in Eurostat Tracesystematic deviations on the basis of quality reports (metadata template proposed) Fixed normative rules agreed in advance between NSIs and Eurostat
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