Jan A. van den Brakel | J.G. Bethlehem Model-based estimation for official statistics
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This paper summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of design-based and model-assisted estimation procedures that are widely applied by most of the European national statistical institutes. Several situations are identified were model-based approaches can have additional value in the production of official statistics, e.g. to deal with small sample sizes, measurement errors and discontinuities due to survey redesigns. It is concluded that there is a case for having official releases and time series, with appropriate quality and methodology descriptions, which rely on statistical models for situations where design-based estimators do not result in sufficiently reliable estimates