This book gives a systematic exposition of the Problems and procedures in producing statistics for small areas (districts, subdivisions, municipal areas; batches of industrial products) which have been lying scattered in different journals over the last three decades.

Preface / Basic Concepts / Inferential Problems in Estimating a Finite Population Total / Direct, Synthetic and Composite Estimators/ Bayes and Empirical Bayes Estimation under Random Effects Models / Ramifications of Bayes Estimation Procedure / Best Linear Unbiased Prediction under Mixed Effects Models / Bayes, Empirical Bayes and Hierarchical Bayes Estimation under Mixed Effects Linear Models / Small Area Estimation of Population Counts / Small Area Estimation using Time Series Methods / References / Author Index / Subject Index.

Researchers and Survey Statisticians