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Abstract:
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The precanvass survey for the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) will yield the single biggest improvement to the 2007 CFS. In the 2007 CFS, a sample of approximately 100,000 is selected from 750,000 establishments in select areas. Information will be collected from a sample of their shipments to produce estimates of the origin and destination of shipments, commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation. The main accomplishments of the precanvass are 1) collected, for the first time in CFS history, measure of size information for auxiliary establishments; 2) eliminated more than 20,000 nonshipping auxiliaries; 3) eliminated more than 1000 duplicate addresses; 4) developed procedures for resolving unidentified as addressed; 5) updated contact information of precanvass establishments; and 6) collected information on the usage of third-party logistics providers.
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