An integrated modeling approach to unemployment rate estimation for sub-provincial areas of canada

Survey Methodology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-27

  You, Yong ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design effect; Hierarchical bayes; Log linear mixed effects model; Model checking; Sampling variance; Small area

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651389064     PISSN: 07140045     EISSN: 14920921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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