Abstract #300569

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300569
Activity Number: 188
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300569
Title: Borrowing Strength from Other Surveys and Incomplete Administrative Data in Small Area Estimation
Author(s): Sharon L. Lohr*+
Companies: Arizona State University
Address: PO Box 871804, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1804,
Keywords: area-level models ; unit-level models ; robust estimation ; outliers ; variance estimation
Abstract:

The National Crime Victimization Survey provides estimates of victimization rates for different crimes such as assault and robbery, but the sample sizes are too small to allow accurate estimates of crime rates at the state level. On the other hand, the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are reported by most police agencies, but do not include all victimizations and may have inaccurate information. We develop models for small area estimation (SAE) that allows UCR data (and data from other surveys such as the American Community Survey) to be used as auxiliary information for SAE of crime rates. We study the robustness of the resulting estimates to the quality of the auxiliary information.

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