TY - JOUR
AU - Hogg, Margaret H.
AB - 284 American Statistical Association [40 SOURCES OF INCOMPARABILITY AND ERROR IN EMPLOYMENT-UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEYS BY MARQARET H. HOGQ, Russell Sage Foundation Interest in employment-unemployment surveys has increased rapidly of late, but the number of surveys made and the public atten- tion directed to their results are not more striking than the diversity of investigation-procedure adopted. Comparison of past surveys proves that variation in procedure can by itself produce very great difference in the degree of unemployment found; it seems, therefore, very desir- able that some standard procedure be adopted for general use. In some details variation may be inevitable, but much past variation has been optional; such surveys will never attain their full value until the methods used are not only sound but also productive of comparable results. In the hope of hastening agreement on a desirable procedure, some important sources of variation and of error in recent surveys are here discussed. Since unemployment and idleness rates are the first objective of such surveys, uniform definitions of the unemployed person and of the person liable to unemployment are essential to comparability, for the total of unemployed persons must be the numerator and the total of persons liable to unemployment must 
TI - Sources of Incomparability and Error in Employment-Unemployment Surveys
JF - Journal of the American Statistical Association
DO - 10.1080/01621459.1930.10503130
DA - 1930-09-01
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SP - 284
EP - 294
VL - 25
IS - 171
DP - DeepDyve
ER -