Abbreviations
| AAPOR | American Association for Public Opinion Research |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ACTR | automatic coding by text recognition |
| AIC/BIC | Akaike/Bayes information criterion |
| ANCOVA | analysis of covariance |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| ARIMA | autoregressive integrated moving average |
| ARTS | annual retail trade survey |
| ASHE | annual survey of hours and earnings |
| AUM | animal unit month (found in Fig. 8.9) |
| BDCM | business data collection methodology |
| BLS | Bureau of Labor Statistics (US) |
| BLUE | best linear unbiased estimator |
| BRDIS | Business Research and Development Innovation Survey (US) |
| CAPI | computer-assisted personal interview |
| CATI | computer-assisted telephone interview |
| CBA | cost/benefit analysis |
| COLI | cost-of-living index |
| CPA | classification of products by activity |
| CPC | central product classification |
| CPI | consumer price index |
| CRA | Canada Revenue Agency |
| CSAQ | computerized self-administered questionnaire |
| CSO | Central Statistical Office (UK) |
| CSPI | corporate services price index |
| CV | coefficient of variation |
| DBT | design–build–test |
| DDI | data documentation initative |
| DP | data provider |
| EDI | electronic data interchange |
| EIN | employer identification number |
| ESA | European system of (national) accounts |
| ESS | European Statistical System |
| ETS | enterprise and trade statistics |
| FPC | Financial Policy Committee (of Bank of England) |
| FTE | full-time equivalent |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GSBPM | generic statistical business process model |
| GSS | Government Statistical ... |
