Context: The survey design addresses the following issues: what statistics are produced, for which population, when, and with what accuracy; what data are to be collected for which units of the population of interest, and what are the methods by which those data are to be collected and processed to produce the required statistics. Operational, organisational and administrative issues are usually addressed (Lessler, J.T. and Kalsbeek, W.D., "Non Sampling Error in Survey", John Wiley, New York, 1992 or US Department of Commerce, "Glossary of Non Sampling Error Terms: An Illustration of a Semantic Problem in Statistics", Statistical Policy Working Paper 4, Office of Federal Statistical Policy Standards, 1978).

Source: Statistics Canada, "Statistics Canada Quality Guidelines", 4th edition, October 2003, page 8

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