Sample Weighting Methods and Estimation of Totals in the Consumer Expenditure Survey
消费者支出调查的样本加权与总量估计
The widely used Principal Person method of weighting households in federal government surveys uses external post-Censal information on population to improve survey sample weights by a form of poststratification. While the Principal Person Methodology can be viewed as part of a procedure to adjust for nonresponse and undercoverage, it is not oriented for efficiently incorporating ancillary information or combining information from multiple surveys into survey estimates of…