Pfeffermann, Danny; Feder, Moshe; Signorelli, David - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 16 (1998) 3, pp. 339-48
This article describes a simple method of estimating the autocorrelations of survey errors for the case of routing-panel sampling designs. Such designs are in routine use, for example, in labor force surveys (LFS). The survey-error autocorrelations induce spurious trends that need to be...