The course offers a review of the main Small Area Estimation Methods and teach how to apply them to European survey data to have a local monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and to estimate deprivation and inequality indicators, focusing also in aggregating Multidimensional Indicators and on conceptualizing, defining and measuring poverty under the capability approach. The course will be structured in the following parts 1) Analysis of the collected data for estimation and testing for the phenomenon under study; definition of planned and unplanned domains. 2) Direct and indirect estimates for unplanned domains; R codes for the application of the SAE estimators (EURAREA and SAMPLE project libraries) 3) quality issues in SAE and usage of SAE in European Statistical System. At the end of the module student will be able to deal with small area estimation both at the theoretical and empirical level and to apply aggregation methods to indicators from the European survey data. Students will learn the fundamental small area methods and what might be the problems that arise in the application of them and in the definition of their statistical quality.
