Variance estimation with post stratification. Suppose we post stratify the sample into L post strata, with population

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Variance estimation with post stratification. Suppose we post stratify the sample into L post strata, with population counts N1, N2. . . NL. Then the post stratified estimator for the population total is

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Where
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And xli =1 if unit i is in post stratum l and 0 otherwise. Show, using linearization, that
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We can thus let
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and estimate V(ṫpost) by
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Sampling Design And Analysis

ISBN: 627

2nd Edition

Authors: Sharon L. Lohr

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