Open AccessEstimation of the Number of Unemployed and Employed For Lithuanian Counties and Municipalities Using Models
Author(s) -
Linas Naujanis,
Danutė Krapavickaitė
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lithuanian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2029-7262
DOI - 10.15388/ljs.2015.13878
Subject(s) - estimator , statistics , bias of an estimator , standard deviation , econometrics , standard error , mathematics , estimation , small area estimation , population , stein's unbiased risk estimate , economics , minimum variance unbiased estimator , demography , sociology , management
Problems of finite population parameters estimation are analyzed in this paper. Four methods have been used for parameterestimation: sampling design-based unbiased estimator, multiple regression and logistic regression model-based estimators and James–Stein estimator. The design-based estimator is unbiased, but its standard deviation is usually high. Model-based estimators are notunbiased, but their standard deviations are low. In order to minimize the standard deviation and the bias, the James–Stein estimator isapplied. Labour force survey data of Statistics Lithuania are used for simulation to study model-based estimators for the number ofunemployed and employed persons in districts and counties, and the role of information on registered unemployment in these models.