Post-stratification based on a choice of a randomization device

Authors

  • Sarjinder Singh Texas A&M University - Kingsville
  • Stephen A. Sedory Texas A&M University - Kingsville
  • Housila P. Singh Vikram University, Ujjain
  • Raghunath Arnab University of Botswana
  • Inderjit Singh Grewal Punjab Agricultural University - Ludhiana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1973-2201/4996

Keywords:

Respondents cooperation, post-stratification, sensitive characteristics, protection and efficiency.

Abstract

In this paper, we use the idea of post-stratification based on the respondents’ choice of a particular randomization device in order to estimate the population proportion of a sensitive characteristic. The proposed idea gives full freedom to the respondents and is expected to result in greater cooperation from them as well as to provide some increase in the relative efficiency of the newly proposed estimator.

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Published

2014-06-30

How to Cite

Singh, S., Sedory, S. A., Singh, H. P., Arnab, R., & Grewal, I. S. (2014). Post-stratification based on a choice of a randomization device. Statistica, 74(2), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1973-2201/4996

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Vol. 74 No. 2 (2014)

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