The Quantification of Qualitative Survey Data: A Critical Assessment
批判性回顾了将商业和消费者调查中的定性数据转化为定量数据的不同方法，并指出它们在宏观经济建模中的使用限制。
Abstract. Data obtained from business and consumer surveys are often used in forecasting models and in testing different expectation formation schemes. Their use, however, requires a previous step of transformation of the qualitative data into quantitative figures. This paper contains a critical review of the different quantification methods, highlighting the limits of their use in macroeconomic modelling.