Abstract
Sandra West, Tran Kratzke, and Paul Grden (1997)
"Estimators for Average Hourly Earnings and Average Weekly
Hours for the Current Employment Statistics Survey," Proceedings
of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical
Association.
In this paper the results of a theoretical and empirical
investigation of different estimators for average hourly
earnings and average weekly hours for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics' Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey are
presented. The investigations began in connection with the
redesign of the survey. This is a large longitudinal survey
of establishments that provides monthly estimates for, among
other parameters, total employment, average weekly hours and
average hourly earnings for production and non supervisory
workers. Ten estimators which, for the most part, are ratios
of two random variables are considered. The empirical study
was done using national CES data that have responses for
relevant characteristics for a period of thirteen months.
Estimators were evaluated under both low and high nonresponse
rates. In this study, nonrespondents are not missing at
random.
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