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The use of Sampling in Pension Fund Valuations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

F. Gordon Smith
F. Gordon Smith*
Affiliation:
Government Actuary's Department
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The application of sampling technique to statistical data, which a few decades ago was a rarity, has now become common practice. Our past President, Mr F. A. A. Menzler, in his presidential address said:

Sampling, in all its manifestations, has become almost a social and industrial routine. In this paper, by examining in some detail the application of sampling to a particular branch of actuarial work, namely pension fund valuations, an attempt is made to investigate the possibilities of its use in the actuarial-field. By the choice of pension fund valuations, which are a particularly complicated example of the actuarial technique, the investigation will, it is hoped, give a good insight into the sort of problems involved.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , September 1953 , pp. 129 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1953

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References

* Journal of the American statistical Association, 1948, p. 413.