Definition: Observation errors
OECD - Business tendency surveys
Observation errors are components of non-sampling error and are generated during the data collection process. They may occur because the question is wrongly worded or misleading, because the interviewer makes an error whilst asking the question or because the interviewer records incorrectly the answer given by the respondent.
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Business Tendency Surveys - A Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2003
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