Producing Monthly Estimates of Unemployment and Employment According to the International Labour Office Definition

Steel, David G

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“…The standard error estimates for each method were calculated, to facilitate hypothesis testing. For the weighting, the available LFS design effects for the sample design and effect of non-response were combined following Steel (1996), and applied to standard error estimates obtained assuming a simple random sampling design. Standard errors for the model estimates were calculated using a grouped jackknife (e.g.…”

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An Application of Non–Ignorable Non–Response Models for Gross Flows Estimation in the British Labour Force Survey

Clarke

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2002

Aus NZ J of Statistics

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In previous work, non-response adjustments based on calibration weighting have been proposed for estimating gross flows in economic activity status from the quarterly Labour Force Survey. However, even after adjustment there may be residual non-response bias. The weighting is based on estimates of cross-sectional distributions and so cannot adjust for bias if non-response is associated with individual flows between quarters. To investigate this possibility, it was decided to apply models for estimating gross flows when non-response depends on the flows. This paper has two aims: first to describe the many problems encountered when attempting to implement these models; and second to outline a solution to the major problem that arose, namely, that comparing the model results directly with the weighting results was not possible. A simulation study was used to compare the results indirectly and it was tentatively concluded that non-response is not strongly associated with the flows and that the weighting provides an adequate adjustment.

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An Application of Non–Ignorable Non–Response Models for Gross Flows Estimation in the British Labour Force Survey

Clarke

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2002

Aus NZ J of Statistics

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“…The Report of the Working Party of the Royal Statistical Society recommended that the LFS unemployment series should be used instead of the Count of Claimants (Working Party on the Measurement of Unemployment in the UK, 1995;Steele, 1996). But though both series can be considered as adequate in relation to their functions, neither series is by itself adequate in relation to topics such as the potential size of the labour force nor of the reserve army of labour.…”

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Statistics as Organizational Products

Thomas

1996

Sociological Research Online

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The paper argues that statistics should be seen as organizational products and that growth in the range and variety of statistics testifies to growth in the power of organizations. The paper emphasises the importance of identifying the functions of statistical systems, and recommends a genealogical approach to help identify the unwitting testimony given by the assumptions and motivations associated with the categorizations and data creation procedures used in the production of statistics. The paper examines the motivations, assumptions, and functions associated with statistical systems involving the Census of Population, the British National Food Survey, economic management, and unemployment. The discussion focuses on the evidence these case studies provide on the role of statistics in society and of the influence of organizational meanings on society.

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“…Her chapter on developments in statistics gives an alternative to the rather formal picture given by the Working Party on Of®cial Statistics (1991) made in the wake of the Hibbert meeting, and to the rose-tinted picture of the former Director of the Central Statistical Of®ce (McLennan, 1995). The account of unemployment statistics by Levitas complements the Working Party on the Measurement of Unemployment in the UK (1995) and gives a fuller account of the production of statistics of unemployment from the Labour Force Survey than is included in Steel (1996) on making monthly estimates from this source.…”

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Producing Monthly Estimates of Unemployment and Employment According to the International Labour Office Definition

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An Application of Non–Ignorable Non–Response Models for Gross Flows Estimation in the British Labour Force Survey

An Application of Non–Ignorable Non–Response Models for Gross Flows Estimation in the British Labour Force Survey

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