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Abstract #300446

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Activity Number: 26
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300446
Title: A Study of Mass Imputation in Small-area Estimation
Author(s): Richard Moore*+ and Nancy Robbins
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: , Suitland, MD, ,
Keywords: mass imputation ; small-area estimation
Abstract:

The Survey of Business Owners (SBO), a survey conducted every five years, is the most comprehensive survey source of basic economic statistics on businesses owned by poeople of Black, Hispanic, Asian-Pacific Islanders, or American Indian-Native Alaskan ancestry and women. It publishes information on the aggregate number, receipts, payroll, and employment of minority-owned sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. While SBO is designed to provide reliable estimates of race/ethnicity at the state by two-digit standard industrial classification, requests are often received for estimates at more detailed geographic and/or industry levels. Direct survey estimators fail for these finer levels of detail because the sample is not representative at these levels. We have proposed a method of mass imputation whereby data is imputed both for nonresponding and nonsampled cases to create a complete universe. The results are encouraging when the estimates from this method are compared to the direct estimates in small areas.

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