TY - GEN AU - Rueda García, María Del Mar AU - Perri, Pier Francesco AU - Cobo Rodríguez, Beatriz PY - 2017 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68504 AB - To collect sensitive data, survey statisticians have designed many strategies to reduce nonresponse rates and social desirability response bias. In recent years, the item count technique (ICT) has gained considerable popularity and credibility as an... LA - eng KW - auxiliary information KW - calibration estimator KW - domain estimator KW - item count technique KW - Horvitz-Thompson estimator KW - randomized response KW - sensitive characteristic TI - Advances in estimation by the item sum technique using auxiliary information in complex surveys DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10182-017-0315-2 ER -