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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

This section answers the most frequently asked questions about the Service Annual Survey. Other sections answer additional questions about survey coverage and forms. If you don't find answers to all your survey questions, please contact us.

• General
• Confidentiality
• Form Completion
• Sample Selection
• Publication Information

Questions and Answers - by Category

• General

  1.  Is this survey mandatory?
  2.  What is the Service Annual Survey?
  3.  Who uses the data?
  4.  My firm is no longer in business. What should I do?
  5.  Why don't you get the information you need from the IRS?
  6.  What is NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)?
  7.  I report data in the Quarterly Services Survey? Why can't you sum up the data?
  
  

• Confidentiality

  8.  Are my responses confidential?
  9.  Will the name of my business be kept confidential?
  10.  How do I know that no one else can access the data from your computer?
  11.  How did you get my Employer Identification Number (EIN)?
  
  

• Form Completion

  12.  About how long will it take to complete this form?
  13.  Are estimates acceptable?
  14.  Why do you need to know if I own other companies or if another company owns my firm?
  15.  I've returned my form. Why have I received another just like it?
  16.  If I need another copy of the questionnaire(s), how can I obtain one?
  17.  Can I be paid for completing the survey?
  
  

• Sample Selection

  18.  How was I selected for the survey?
  19.  How long will I be in the survey?
  20.  I'm a very small business. Why do you want information from me?
  
  

• Publication Information

  21.  When will the survey data be available?
  22.  How can I obtain the published data?
  
  Last revised: February 23 2007 15:13:44