期刊
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY
卷 184, 期 2, 页码 571-588出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12632
关键词
evaluation coverage; privacy protection; proxy source effect; survey burden and cost
This study discusses the use of purchase data from retail chains as proxy measures of private household expenditure, highlighting the bias and variance issues associated with these proxy measures. An audit sampling inference approach is proposed to investigate the potential of replacing costly and burdensome surveys with non-survey big-data sources. However, in some cases, meaningful results may not be obtained using this method.
Purchase data from retail chains can provide proxy measures of private household expenditure on items that are the most troublesome to collect in the traditional expenditure survey. Due to the inevitable coverage and selection errors, bias must exist in these proxy measures. Moreover, given the sheer amount of data, the bias completely dominates the variance. To investigate the potential of replacing costly and burdensome surveys by non-survey big-data sources, we propose an audit sampling inference approach, which does not require linking the audit sample and the big-data source at the individual level. It turns out that one is unable to reject a null hypothesis of unbiased big-data estimation at the chosen size, because the audit sampling variance is too large compared to the bias of the big-data estimate. For the same reason, audit sampling fails to yield a meaningful mean squared error estimate. We propose a novel accuracy measure that is generally applicable in such situations. This can provide a necessary part of the statistical argument for the uptake of non-survey big-data sources, in replacement of traditional survey sampling. An application to disaggregated food price indices is used to demonstrate the proposed approach.
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