5342.0 - Balance of Payments Statistics, Information Paper on Quality , 1996  
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Contents >> Chapter 3. Analysis of reliability of the statistics


This section contains the following subsection :
      Introduction
      Sign convention
      Bias and dispersion
      Bias of the statistics
      Direction of one-year revisions
      Magnitude of one-year revisions
      Are revisions predominantly positive or negative?
      Do all revisions reduce error?
      Do revisions alter information provided by initial estimates?
      Summary of analysis of reliability

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