Multilevel Time Series Modelling of Mobility Trends in the Netherlands for Small Domains

Abstract The purpose of the Dutch Travel Survey is to produce reliable estimates on mobility of the Dutch population. In this paper mobility trends are estimated at several aggregation levels, using multilevel time series models. The models account for discontinuities induced by two survey redesigns and outliers due to less reliable outcomes in one particular year. The input for the model is direct annual estimates with their standard errors for the period 1999–2017 for a detailed cross-classification in 504 domains. Appropriate transformations for the direct estimates and generalized variance... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Boonstra, Harm Jan
van den Brakel, Jan
Das, Sumonkanti
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society ; volume 184, issue 3, page 985-1007 ; ISSN 0964-1998 1467-985X
Verlag/Hrsg.: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Schlagwörter: Statistics / Probability and Uncertainty / Economics and Econometrics / Social Sciences (miscellaneous) / Statistics and Probability
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12700

Abstract The purpose of the Dutch Travel Survey is to produce reliable estimates on mobility of the Dutch population. In this paper mobility trends are estimated at several aggregation levels, using multilevel time series models. The models account for discontinuities induced by two survey redesigns and outliers due to less reliable outcomes in one particular year. The input for the model is direct annual estimates with their standard errors for the period 1999–2017 for a detailed cross-classification in 504 domains. Appropriate transformations for the direct estimates and generalized variance functions to smooth the standard errors of the direct estimates are proposed. The models are fitted in an hierarchical Bayesian framework using MCMC simulations. From the model outputs smooth trend estimates are computed at the most detailed domain level. Predictions at higher aggregation levels obtained by aggregation of the most detailed domain predictions result in a numerically consistent set of trend estimates for all target variables.