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Sample Design In The Finnish Agricultural Income Statistics, Paavo Väisänen

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

The Finnish Agricultural Income Statistics. published yearly by Statistics Finland, are based on a survey in which the data are collected from the farms in connection with taxation. The sampling design is stratified simple random sampling, in which Neyman allocation is used to calculate the sample sizes for the strata. The Farm Register is used as the sampling frame where variables such as region, production sector and arable land are available for stratification. The total incomes of farms from the previous survey serve as the allocation variable. Stratification and Neyman allocation rendered the estimates of most income variables more effective …