The households in a town are to be sampled in order to estimate the average amount ofassets per household that are readily convertible into cash. The households are stratifiedinto high-rent and a low-rent stratum. A house in the high-rent stratum is thought to haveabout nine times as much assets as one in the low-rent stratum, and S, is expected to beproportional to the square root of the stratum mean. There are 4000 households in thehigh-rent stratum and 20,000 in the low-rent.a) How would you distribute a sample of 1000 households between the two strata?b) If the object is to estimate the difference between assets per household in the twostrata, how should the sample be distributed?

The households in a town are to be sampled in order to estimate the av

1.	The households in a town are to be sampled in order to estimate the average amount ofassets per household that are readily convertible into cash. The households are stratifiedinto high-rent and a low-rent stratum. A house in the high-rent stratum is thought to haveabout nine times as much assets as one in the low-rent stratum, and S, is expected to beproportional to the square root of the stratum mean. There are 4000 households in thehigh-rent stratum and 20,000 in the low-rent.a) How would you distribute a sample of 1000 households between the two strata?b) If the object is to estimate the difference between assets per household in the twostrata, how should the sample be distributed?
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