Business Survey Methods (wiley Series In Probability And Statistics)

This page intentionally left blank Business Survey Methods WILEY SERIES IN PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS Established by WALTER A. SHEWHART and SAMUEL S. WILKS Editors: Vic Barnett, Ralph A. Bradley, Nicholas I. Fisher, J. Stuart Hunter, J. B. Kadane, David G. Kendall, David W. Scott, Adrian F. M. Smith, Jozef L. Teugels, Geoffrey S. Watson A complete list of the titles in this series appears at the end of this volume Business Survey Methods Edited by BRENDA G. COX Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. DAVID A. BINDER Statistics Canada B. NANJAMMA CHINNAPPA Statistics Canada ANDERS CHRISTIANSON Statistics Sweden MICHAEL J. COLLEDGE Australian Bureau of Statistics PHILLIP S. KOTT U. S. National Agricultural Statistics Service A Wiley-Interscience Publication JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. New York · Chichester · Brisbane · Toronto · Singapore This text is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 1995 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Requests for permission or further information should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Business Survey Methods / edited by Brenda G. Cox . . . [et al.]. p. cm. — (Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics. Applied probability and statistics) "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes index. ISBN 0-471-59852-6 1. Economic surveys—Congresses. 2. Social sciences—Statistical methods—Congresses. 1. Cox, Brenda G. II. Series. HA31.2.S874 1995 330'.0723-dc20 94-20611 CIP Contents Contributors Preface 1. Unique Features of Business Surveys Brenda G. Cox and B. Nanjamma Chinnappa ix xiii 1 PART A FRAMES AND BUSINESS REGISTERS 2. Frames and Business Registers: An Overview Michael J. Colledge 21 3. Defining and Classifying Statistical Units Shaila Nijhowne 49 4. Changes in Populations of Statistical Units Peter Struijs and Ad Willeboordse 65 5. Maintenance of Business Registers David Archer 85 6. Profiling Large Businesses to Define Frame Units Leon Pietsch 7. Implementing a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Revision Brian MacDonald 101 115 v vi CONTENTS PART B SAMPLE DESIGN AND SELECTION 8. Selecting Samples from List Frames of Businesses Richard S. Sigman and Nash J. Monsour 9. Coordination of Samples Using Permanent Random Numbers Esbjörn Ohlsson 10. Sampling Methods for Repeated Business Surveys 133 153 171 K. P. Srinath and Ronald M. Carpenter 11. Multiple-Frame Business Surveys 185 Phillip S. Kott and Frederic A. Vogel 12. Sample Design Using Peano Key Sequencing in a Market Research Joseph K. Garren and Rachel M. Harter 13. Business Surveys as a Network Sample Ayah E. Johnson 205 219 PART C DATA COLLECTION AND RESPONSE QUALITY 14. Issues in Surveying Businesses: An International Survey 237 Anders Christiansen and Robert D. Tortora 15. Evaluating a