This document was prepared by the working group for the development of methodological recommendations for measuring the quality of household survey figures, established by the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean for the 2022–2023 biennium. The group was coordinated by the National Institute of Statistics of Chile, and the ECLAC Statistics Division served as its technical secretariat.
This document begins with a diagnosis of the practices used by the region’s national statistical offices to measure the quality of estimates, particularly those yielded by household sample surveys. A conceptual framework related to the scope of the study is provided below, with a particular focus on replicated weight techniques for estimating sampling errors. Based on the review of the literature carried out, the various quality criteria that can be used to determine the statistical quality of estimates are presented in a logical order, and a work flow for applying the examined quality criteria is proposed to serve as the standard reference for assessing the statistical quality of national statistical office estimates.
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