 | United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1915 - 340 pages
...whole. |He must find the most reliable source of information, |the most representative market,\the most typical brands or grades,/ and the class of dealers...the prices of different articles on a given date. Difficult as it is to secure satisfactory price quotations, it is still more difficult to secure satisfactory... | |
 | Melvin Thomas Copeland - Business - 1917 - 726 pages
...in the same locality different dealers of the same class do not all pay the same price to everyone from whom they buy the same grade in the same quantity...the prices of different articles on a given date. Difficult as it is to secure satisfactory price quotations, it is still more difficult to secure satisfactory... | |
 | Labor laws and legislation - 1970 - 722 pages
...the difficulties in selecting a representative sample; the need for quality adjustments; the need to "guard against the pitfalls of cash discounts, premiums,...rebates, deferred payments, and allowances of all sorts";2 and maintenance of comparability. Mitchell wrote as a practical index maker; he was the principal... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - Social sciences - 1920 - 252 pages
...United States and Foreign Countries, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bui. 179, 1915, pp. 27-28. ' .' jobber, and local buyer; in different localities the...the prices of different articles on a given date." It should always be remembered that nothing will come out of an investigation that has not first been... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - Social sciences - 1920 - 248 pages
...same ; even in the same locality different dealers of the same class do not all pay the same price to1 every one from whom they buy the same grade in. the...the prices of different articles on a given date." It should always be remembered that nothing will come out of an investigation that has not first been... | |
 | 1921 - 364 pages
...an index number must select from among all these different prices for each of his commodi- • ties the one or the few series of quotations that make...the prices of different articles on a given date. Difficult as it is to secure satisfactory price quotations, it is still more difficult to secure satisfactory... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Young - Business - 1925 - 778 pages
...quantity on the same day. To find what really was the price of cotton, for example, on February I, 1920, would require an elaborate investigation, and would...the prices of different articles on a given date. What has been said in this quotation relative to the collection of data for purposes of constructing... | |
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Now the field worker collecting data for an index number must select from among all these different prices for each of his commodities the one or the few series of quotations that make the most representative sample of the whole. He must find the most... 