Mean Squared Error Estimation for Small Area Means, Quantiles and Poverty Indicators: A nonparametric bootstrap approach
2011
This paper describes a group of online services which are designed to support social
survey research and the production of statistical results. The 'Grid Enabled Specialist
Data Environment' (GESDE) services constitute three related systems which offer
facilities to search for, extract and exploit supplementary data and metadata concerned
with the measurement and operationalisation of survey variables. The services also offer
users the opportunity to deposit and distribute their own supplementary data resources for
the benefit of dissemination and replication of the details of their own analysis.
The GESDE services focus upon three application areas: specialist data relating to the
measurement of occupations; educational qualifications; and ethnicity (including
nationality, language, religion, national identity). They identify information resources
related to the operationalisation of variables which seek to measure each of these
concepts - examples include coding frames, crosswalk and translation files, and
standardisation and harmonisation recommendations. These resources constitute
important supplementary data which can be usefully exploited in the analysis of survey
data. The GESDE services work by collecting together as much of this supplementary
data as possible, and making it searchable and retrievable to others. This paper discusses
the current features of the GESDE services (which have been designed as part of a wider
programme of ‘e-Science’ research in the UK), and considers ongoing challenges in
providing effective support for variable-oriented statistical analysis in the social sciences.
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