Pereira, Luis NobreCoelho, Pedro S.2012-02-282012-02-282008European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2008), Roma, 2008.AUT: LMP01693;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/911Local level planning requires statistics for small areas, but normally due to cost or logistic constraints, sample surveys are often planned to provide reliable estimates only for large geographical regions and large subgroups of a population.engSmall Area EstimationEBLUPLinear mixed modelsMSPE of the EBLUPconference object2012-02-24