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What does PSU stand for?

Primary Sampling Unit


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The United States is divided into 107 primary sampling units, which are further divided into clusters by postal ZIP codes.
The Local Educational Authorities and state-supported special schools were the primary sampling unit from which a stratified random sample of students who were receiving special education was taken.
A 2-stage cluster design, probability proportional to cluster size, was used to generate a probability sample of 200 households within the study area; 20 primary sampling units were selected at the first stage and 10 households at the second stage (Figure 1).
1) Second, a sample of business establishments and State and local government operations is selected from within each primary sampling unit that is chosen.
Fixler and McClelland estimate one-year log price changes for 175 different items and find that, for all goods, growth rates in at least one Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) were significantly different from the average.
Our primary sampling unit was the "area-day-shift," where area refers to the place of solicitation, day to the day of the week, and shift to a six-hour time period within the day.
The first-stage sample contains the same 112 geographic primary sampling units as NAMCS.
Thirty primary sampling units where prices are currently collected, including Anchorage and Honolulu, were selected with certainty.

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