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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Two stage survey design with small clusters
by
Robert G. Clark
University of Wollongong
Coauthors: David G. Steel (University of Wollongong)

In two-stage surveys, the sample size of both clusters and units within clusters can be chosen to trade off cost and variance. For household surveys, clusters are households and units are people. In practice, either all people or one person are selected from each selected household. More efficient designs are constructed by explicitly accounting for the fact that within-cluster sample sizes are integers. Randomly allocating different sample sizes for different clusters can result in even greater gains. Significant cost savings in large scale population surveys may be possible using the new methods.

Date received: November 15, 2001

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