摘要: This document presents perspectives of the research in small-area estimation carried out by the team IDESCAT-UPF, composed of staff of the Catalan Statistical Institute and the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, since the year 2000. The work accomplished by the team is reviewed, together with the current research on small-area estimation by Longford (2004–2007), and two recent papers on the subject published in Survey Methodology.