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Activity Number:
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273
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economics Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #300587 |
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Title:
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The Quality Assurance Survey and Its Impact on Statistics Canada's Business Register
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Author(s):
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Tyler Kirkland*+ and Zeeshan Mahmood and Caroline Pelletier
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Companies:
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Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada
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Address:
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100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada
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Keywords:
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quality assurance survey ; business register ; NAICS ; industrial coding
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Abstract:
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The Business Register (BR) is used by most business surveys at Statistics Canada as their sampling frame. One of the key variables on the BR is the industrial code that Statistics Canada assigns for all Canadian businesses based on their main business activity descriptions. Proper industrial coding is crucial to ensure surveys minimize costs, sustain high-quality respondent relations and meet accuracy requirements. Developed as part of the BR redesign, the Quality Assurance Survey (QAS) is an on-going monthly survey designed to measure the proportion of incorrectly coded establishments as well as the proportion of dead establishments. This paper will present the methodology and implementation of the QAS as well as some preliminary results. In addition, it will discuss the important role the survey plays at Statistics Canada along with presenting the current and future uses of the survey.
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