Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Watjou K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7036870 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watjou Kevin K Faes Christel C Vandendijck Yannick Y
International journal of environmental research and public health 20200128 3
Small area estimation is an important tool to provide area-specific estimates of population characteristics for governmental organizations in the context of education, public health and care. However, many demographic and health surveys are unrepresentative at a small geographical level, as often areas at a lower level are not included in the sample due to financial or logistical reasons. In this paper, we investigated (1) the effect of these unsampled areas on a variety of design-based and hier ...[more]