Abstract
County level estimates of mean sheet and rill erosion from the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) are useful for program development and evaluation. Since county sample sizes in the CEAP survey are insufficient to support reliable direct estimators, small area estimation procedures are needed. The quantity of water runoff is a useful covariate but is unavailable for the full population. We use an estimate of mean runoff from the CEAP survey as a covariate in a small area model with sheet and rill erosion as the response. As the runoff and sheet and rill erosion are estimators from the same survey, the measurement error in the covariate is important as is the correlation between the measurement error and the sampling error. We conduct a detailed investigation of small area estimation in the presence of a correlation between the measurement error in the covariate and the sampling error in the response. In simulations, the proposed predictor is superior to small area predictors that assume the response and covariate are uncorrelated or that ignore the measurement error entirely.
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