How similar are ONS’s annual and monthly business inquiries?
This article supports the Office for National Statistics’ monthly and annual surveys reconciliation programme. It presents an analysis of the coherence of business survey returns between the Monthly Inquiry into the Distribution and Service Sector (MIDSS) and Monthly Production Inquiry (MPI) compared with the Annual Business Inquiry. A two-stage methodology is employed: fi rstly, analysing the aggregate data and secondly, using microdata sets matching individual business responses from the monthly and annual surveys. This analysis is reported in terms of levels and growth rates for both an unadjusted and an adjusted MPI/MIDSS series.
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Robjohns, J., Whittard, D. How similar are ONS’s annual and monthly business inquiries?. Econ Lab Market Rev 2, 43–51 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/elmr.2008.186
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/elmr.2008.186