00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.882699 CaOODSP 20221107170352 m o d f cr cn||||||||| 191206t20192019oncd obs f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP eng fre n-cn-us FB3-5/2019-45E-PDF Bhandari, Anmol, author. What do survey data tell us about US businesses? / by Anmol Bhandari, Serdar Birinci, Ellen McGrattan and Kurt See. [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (iv, 55 pages) : colour charts. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-45 Includes bibliographical references. "This paper examines the reliability of survey data on business incomes, valuations, and rates of return, which are key inputs for studies of wealth inequality and entrepreneurial choice. We compare survey responses of business owners with available data from administrative tax records, brokered private business sales, and publicly traded company filings and document problems due to nonrepresentative samples and measurement errors across all surveys, subsamples, and years. We find that the discrepancies are economically relevant for the statistics of interest. We investigate reasons for these discrepancies and propose corrections for future survey designs"--Abstract. Includes abstract in French. Business enterprises United States. Business cycles United States. Economic surveys United States. Entreprises États-Unis. Cycles économiques États-Unis. Enquêtes économiques États-Unis. Bank of Canada. Staff working paper (Bank of Canada) 2019-45. (CaOODSP)9.806221 PDF 2.15 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2019-45-eng.pdf