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JSM 2002 Abstract #301725
Activity Number: 282
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics*
Abstract - #301725
Title: Determining Within-PSU Sample Sizes for the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Author(s): David Swanson*+
Affiliation(s): U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Address: 2 Mass. Ave, NE, Room 3650, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212, USA
Keywords: Variance ; Sample size ; Sample allocation ; Constrained least squares
Abstract:

The Consumer Expenditure Survey is a nationwide survey of households conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Bureau of the Census to find out how Americans spend their money. The survey's random sample of households is designed to minimize the variance of its nationwide expenditure estimates. However, the survey has a competing goal of also obtaining accurate local area survey estimates to allow them to be published. This paper describes a method of sample allocation that minimizes the variance of the survey's nationwide expenditure estimates, while also providing sufficiently large sample sizes within each local area to support the publication of local area expenditure estimates.

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