Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18194 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 198
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper, a weight is derived for the calculation of design based estimators of totals, means and proportions using the ongoing German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and a new cross-sectional sample. In the first part of the paper, the selection schemes of the subsamples A, B, C and D of the ongoing panel and of the new sample (sample E) are described. Using some similarity assumptions and starting from a general formulation, an optimal weight in the sense of small variances of design-based estimators using both samples is derived. The merits of this approach as well as some disadvantages are discussed.
Subjects: 
design based inference
convex weighting estimator
complex surveys
panel survey
cross-sectional sample
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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