Methodology and Standard Errors

For additional information about SESTAT design and methodologies, and about the reliability of SESTAT estimates, click 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 SESTAT Estimates provides information about survey errors for the SESTAT database. Discussed here is the development of SESTAT sampling errors and the methods you can use for calculating standard errors of SESTAT estimates.

Updated: September 29, 1998