Methodology and Standard Errors

Additional information about SESTAT design and methodologies and the reliablility of SESTAT estimates is available by clicking on one of the topics below:

Design and Methodology provides information about the SESTAT target population, component surveys, data collection and processing, and weighting strategy.

Reliability of 1993 SESTAT Estimates provides information about survey errors for the SESTAT database. Discussed here is the development of SESTAT sampling errors, followed by a description of methods you can use for calculating standard errors of SESTAT estimates.


Updated: February 25, 1998