Transforming Qualitative Survey Data: Performance Comparisons for the UK*

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics - Tập 66 Số 1 - Trang 71-89 - 2004
Ciarán Driver, Giovanni Urga

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AbstractThis paper assesses different ways of converting qualitative data obtained in surveys into quantitative indices for a number of economic variables. The research reported here focuses on the main UK employers’ business survey for manufacturing – the CBI industrial trends survey. Six response variables are investigated – plant and machinery investment, output, employment, exports, price and cost. We find that the balance statistic is a satisfactory method of transforming three of the variables: investment, output and exports.

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