On the Use of the County as the Primary Sampling Unit for State Estimates
以县作为州级估计初级抽样单位的适用性
Our purpose is to consider the efficiency of the county as the primary sampling unit for making state estimates of some socio-economic and agricultural characteristics of the farm population in North Carolina. The main emphasis is on the general purpose type of survey for the State as a whole—one in which both socio-economic and agricultural characteristics are to be estimated; the study is not directed at obtaining ‘best’ estimates for specialized items. Calculations herein…