Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205522 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 03/17
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
This paper describes a range of ‘minimum distance' methods used to compute new weights for large cross-sectional surveys used in microsimulation modelling. Extraneous information about a range of population variables is used for calibration purposes. An iterative solution procedure is described and numerical examples are given, involving comparisons among alternative distance functions. An application to the New Zealand Household Economic Survey (HES) is reported.
Subjects: 
Household surveys
calibration
survey weights
JEL: 
C30
C42
C61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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