Survey calibration methods modify minimally unit-level sample weights to fit domain-level benchmark constraints (BC). This allows exploitation of auxiliary information, e.g. census totals, to improve the representativeness of sample data (addressing coverage limitations, non-response) and the...

When economic production functions are estimated as frontier functions, the deviations from the frontier can be interpreted as individual inefficiency estimates. The necessity for sensible stopping criteria in robust frontier procedures was the motivation for comparing the two popular parametric...