Small Area Estimation Methods,

Applications and Practical Demonstration

Instructors:

J. N. K. Rao and Isabel Molina

Theory:

Part 1: Traditional methods

Part 2: Model-based methods

Practical Demonstration:

Brief introduction to R

Practice 1: Starting with R

Practice 2: Traditional estimators

Practice 3: Model-based estimators

Needed datafiles:

Data set

Description of data set

Province population sizes

Province popn. sizes by Age

Province popn. sizes by Education Level

Province popn. sizes by Nationality

Province popn. sizes by Situation

X_Albacete

X_Avila

X_Cuenca

X_Guadalajara

X_Huelva

X_Lerida

X_Palencia

X_Segovia

X_Soria

X_Teruel

Other useful material:

Paper on poverty estimation