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Data collected in surveys and censuses of establishments comprise an integral and important part of the nation's information base for policymaking and analysis. Key information on employment and wages, sales, prices, agriculture and energy production, money supply, and many other aspects of the working of the economic and social order are collected from businesses, compiled and published by a large number of Federal government agencies. Collection of data from establishments is not new. Some of the establishment-based data series have been continuous since the early part of the century, and many predate houshold surveys, Nonetheless, in contrast with household surveys, for which a rich literature has emerged over the past 5 decades, very little in the way of theoretical or evaluative work on survey quality has been published for establishment surveys.