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Business and Professional Classification Survey
FAQs

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

• General
• Form Completion
• Sample Selection

Questions and Answers - by Category

• General
  
  

  1.	What is the Business and Professional Classification Survey (SQ-CLASS)?
  2.	Is the survey mandatory?
  3.	What is the purpose of this survey?
  4.	Will my answers be confidential?
  5.	My firm is no longer in business. What should I do?
  6.	Besides mailing the form back, are there any other ways to report?
  7.	What is the mailing address that the form should be returned to?

  
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• Form Completion
  
  

  8.	About how long will it take to complete this form?
  9.	Are estimates acceptable?
  10.	Why do you need to know if I own other companies or if another company owns my firm?
  11.	I have more than one business location; should I answer the questions for all of our business locations, or just the one indicated in the label area?
  12.	What if I am a nonprofit organization?
  13.	I have returned my form. Why have I received another just like it?

  
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• Sample Selection
  
  

  14.	How was I selected for the survey?
  15.	How long will I be in the survey?
  16.	I am a very small business. Why do you want information from me?

  
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