Business Survey Methods -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Unique Features of Business Surveys -- PART A FRAMES AND BUSINESS REGISTERS -- 2. Frames and Business Registers: An Overview -- 3. Defining and Classifying Statistical Units -- 4. Changes in Populations of Statistical Units -- 5. Maintenance of Business Registers -- 6. Profiling Large Businesses to Define Frame Units -- 7. Implementing a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Revision -- PART B SAMPLE DESIGN AND SELECTION -- 8. Selecting Samples from List Frames of Businesses -- 9. Coordination of Samples Using Permanent Random Numbers -- 10. Sampling Methods for Repeated Business Surveys -- 11. Multiple-Frame Business Surveys -- 12. Sample Design Using Peano Key Sequencing in a Market Research -- 13. Business Surveys as a Network Sample -- PART C DATA COLLECTION AND RESPONSE QUALITY -- 14. Issues in Surveying Businesses: An International Survey -- 15. Evaluating and Controlling Measurement Error in Business Surveys -- 16. Designing the Data Collection Process -- 17. Improving Response to Business Mail Surveys -- 18. Automated Telephone Methods for Business Surveys -- 19. Electronic Data Interchange -- PART D DATA PROCESSING -- 20. Matching and Record Linkage -- 21. Improving the Traditional Editing Process -- 22. Imputation of Business Survey Data -- 23. Editing Systems and Software -- 24. Protecting Confidentiality in Business Surveys -- PART E WEIGHTING AND ESTIMATION -- 25. Weighting and Estimation in Business Surveys -- 26. Outliers in Business Surveys -- 27. Small-Area Estimation: Overview and Empirical Study -- 28. Statistical Problems in Estimating the U.S. Consumer Price Index -- 29. Probabilistic Detection of Turning Points in Monthly Business Activity -- 30. Combining Design-Based and Model-Based Inference -- PART F PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

31. The Evolution of Agricultural Data Collection in the United States -- 32. A History of Business Surveys at Statistics Canada: From the Era of the Gifted Amateur to That of Scientific Methodology -- 33. The Role of National Accounts and Their Impact on Business Surveys -- 34. Quality Assurance for Business Surveys -- 35. Business Surveys in Ten Years' Time -- Index.