Comparison of Purposive and Random Sampling Schemes for Estimating Capital Expenditure
估计资本支出的目的抽样与随机抽样方案比较
This article reports results of a large-scale study of various sampling strategies. Conventional sampling strategies are compared with model-based strategies on data from over 12,000 businesses included in the annual Manufacturing Census of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The study has been designed to replicate the quarterly Survey of Capital Expenditure. The results show that for the given data a stratified sample consisting of units with the largest values of the…