TWOFOLD SUBAREA MODEL FOR ESTIMATING COMMUTER PROPORTION IN 10 METROPOLITAN AREAS

Abstract

The metropolitan area is a major contributor to national GDP. The metropolitan area is a center of attraction for many people who come to earn income as commuters. Commuters are people who carry out work activities in the center of the metropolitan area, which are carried out by residents who live in suburban areas around the center of the metropolitan area and commute regularly every day. The availability of commuter statistics from surveys for presentation level down to the smallest administrative level, such as regencies/municipalities, is unreliable. This happens because this level of presentation has poor precision due to insufficient samples due to the Statistics Indonesia survey design for making estimates at the national and provincial levels. It can be done using small area estimation (SAE) to meet increasing data needs, but existing SAE models can often estimate only at one level. To meet data requests more effectively, a model is needed that can estimate several small areas simultaneously. In SAE, one of the SAE models that can do this is the twofold subarea model. The twofold subarea model produces estimates of the proportion of commuters with good precision at the subarea level (regencies/municipalities) and area level (metropolitan area), with the RRMSE percentage value of the estimated proportion of commuters being below 25% for all regions. The results of this research can be used to present commuter data at the regencies/municipalities level and metropolitan area level where there is a lack of samples and become a new opportunity for Statistics Indonesia to increase statistical production in small areas, which is more effective compared to other SAE methods which have so far been used only to estimate one area level.