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79 – Raking, Post-Stratification, and Calibration Methods
Calibration on Partly Known Counts in Frequency Tables with Application to Real Data
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Keywords: calibration, generalized raking, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey
Michael Sverchkov
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Richard Tiller
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Deville and Sarndall (1992, Section 4) considered calibration on the known counts (cell counts or marginal counts) of a frequency table in any number of dimensions (generalized raking procedure). In this paper, we show that a similar procedure can be applied to the case of partly known overlapping counts. As an example we consider calibration of area-month-year unemployment estimates to month-year totals from a time series model of State estimates from the Current Population Survey and area-year totals from the American Community Survey.