Description of a new sampling design for price indices on services In the last decade, Statistics Netherlands (SN) has started publishing service producer price indices (SPPI) for a range of service ...

A small company wants to audit employee travel expenses in an effort to improve the expense reporting procedure and possibly reduce expenses. The company does not have resources to examine all expense ...

If you specify the option METHOD=PPS, PROC SURVEYSELECT selects units with probability proportional to size and without replacement. The selection probability for unit i in stratum h equals n h Z hi .

This paper presents and discusses some new results on the second-order inclusion probabilities of a systematic probability proportional to size sample drawn from a randomly ordered list, also called ...