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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 2750065, member: 7301"] This is way OT but if anyone out there with a statistics background can enlighten me I would appreciate it. The company I work for was recently required to complete a US manufacturers census. 58 pages of questions on our labor force, sales and costs. It took over 6 hours of my time to gather and input the info. For a business of my size we have a better than average accounting system, but the GL doesn't drill down to the level they wanted. We had to research it manually. As much as the wasting of my time angered me, my question is, to those who understand statistics better than I do; how useful can the information I gave really be? We are a very small company. We do 2.5 million per year in total sales. The US economy is 20.4 [B]Trillion[/B] or there abouts. My industrial sector (Plastics) is 427 [B]Billion[/B]. Against that size how can my information be meaningful at all? Or is it just a charade? [/QUOTE]