Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, New Delhi – 110 012, India
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Online published on 7 April, 2014.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to obtain the reliable estimates of crop yield at block level by adopting double sampling approach. For estimating crop yield at block level, alternative estimators have been tried by adopting double sampling ratio, double sampling regression, multivariate ratio and regression methods of estimation in case of double sampling using farmer's eye estimate and area of the fields as auxiliary variables. The efficiencies of these estimators have been compared among each other. It has been observed that among all the estimators, multivariate regression estimator using double sampling is the most efficient estimator
Double sampling, ratio estimator, regression estimator, multivariate ratio estimator, multivariate regression estimator, small area estimation
