Business Survey Methods (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Business Survey Methods......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
1. Unique Features of Business Surveys......Page 23
PART A FRAMES AND BUSINESS REGISTERS......Page 41
2. Frames and Business Registers: An Overview......Page 43
3. Defining and Classifying Statistical Units......Page 71
4. Changes in Populations of Statistical Units......Page 87
5. Maintenance of Business Registers......Page 107
6. Profiling Large Businesses to Define Frame Units......Page 123
7. Implementing a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Revision......Page 137
PART B SAMPLE DESIGN AND SELECTION......Page 153
8. Selecting Samples from List Frames of Businesses......Page 155
9. Coordination of Samples Using Permanent Random Numbers......Page 175
10. Sampling Methods for Repeated Business Surveys......Page 193
11. Multiple-Frame Business Surveys......Page 207
12. Sample Design Using Peano Key Sequencing in a Market Research......Page 227
13. Business Surveys as a Network Sample......Page 241
PART C DATA COLLECTION AND RESPONSE QUALITY......Page 257
14. Issues in Surveying Businesses: An International Survey......Page 259
15. Evaluating and Controlling Measurement Error in Business Surveys......Page 279
16. Designing the Data Collection Process......Page 305
17. Improving Response to Business Mail Surveys......Page 325
18. Automated Telephone Methods for Business Surveys......Page 339
19. Electronic Data Interchange......Page 361
PART D DATA PROCESSING......Page 375
20. Matching and Record Linkage......Page 377
21. Improving the Traditional Editing Process......Page 407
22. Imputation of Business Survey Data......Page 425
23. Editing Systems and Software......Page 447
24. Protecting Confidentiality in Business Surveys......Page 465
PART E WEIGHTING AND ESTIMATION......Page 497
25. Weighting and Estimation in Business Surveys......Page 499
26. Outliers in Business Surveys......Page 525
27. Small-Area Estimation: Overview and Empirical Study......Page 549
28. Statistical Problems in Estimating the U.S. Consumer Price Index......Page 565
29. Probabilistic Detection of Turning Points in Monthly Business Activity......Page 589
30. Combining Design-Based and Model-Based Inference......Page 611
PART F PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS......Page 629
31. The Evolution of Agricultural Data Collection in the United States......Page 631
32. A History of Business Surveys at Statistics Canada: From the Era of the Gifted Amateur to That of Scientific Methodology......Page 655
33. The Role of National Accounts and Their Impact on Business Surveys......Page 677
34. Quality Assurance for Business Surveys......Page 695
35. Business Surveys in Ten Years' Time......Page 713
Index......Page 733