Estimation of unemployment rates in small areas of Portugal: a best linear unbiased prediction approach versus a hierarchical Bayes approach

The high level of unemployment is one of the major problems in most European countries nowadays. Hence, the demand for small area labor market statistics has rapidly increased over the past few years. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the Portuguese Statistical Office is the main source of...

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Main Author: Pereira, Luis Nobre (author)
Other Authors: Mendes, J. (author), Coelho, Pedro S. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/914
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/914