Small Area Statistic in Indonesia

Abstract

Formerly small area statistic in Indonesia is produced using census data which were broken down into smaller domain such as province or district. These data has been published in Province Statistic or District Statistic. It is uneasy to determine how the small area statistic was first applied in Indonesia. However, the literature showed that small area estimation was first introduced by Smeru Research Institute in collaboration with BPS (Statistics Indonesia) to produce poverty maps at three provinces in Indonesia as a pilot project on 2001 – 2003. Our research in SAE is started from 2006. Two sources of main data are used in our study: (i) National Socio-Economic Survey and (ii) Village Census. These data were collected by BPS.