TY - JOUR AU - Morales, Domingo AU - Rueda García, María Del Mar AU - Esteban, Dolores PY - 2017 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68526 AB - This paper introduces small area estimators of poverty indexes, with special attention to the poverty rate (or Head Count Index), and studies the sampling design consistency and the asymptotic normality of these estimators. The estimators are assisted... LA - eng KW - small area estimation KW - poverty index KW - model-assisted estimation KW - nested error regression model KW - empirical best predictor TI - Model-assisted estimation of small area poverty measures: an application within the Valencia Region in Spain DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1678-1 ER -