APPLICATION OF EBLUP ESTIMATION TO THE ANALYSIS OF SMALL AREAS ON THE BASIS OF POLISH HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY

In the paper the results of small area estimation using empiricalbest linear unbiased predictor (EBLUP) for the data coming from PolishHousehold Budget Survey are presented. The results were obtained usingsmall area models of household expenditures for regions. Estimation of sampling errors was conducted by means of the balanced repeated replication(BRR) technique. The estimation of EBLUPs and their corresponding meansquare errors (MSE) was carried out using variance components technique.To calculate MSE of EBLUP the maximum likelihood method (ML) and restricted maximum likelihood method (REML) were used. The computationwas made using SAE package designed for R-project