BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The data quality of the first national economic census met the expected goal, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in a bulletin released Tuesday.

    The data's error rate is merely 4.9 per thousand, said NBS in the bulletin.

    The leading group of the census under the State Council gave a spot check on the data collected in 31 regions, including 21,731 corporate people and industrial enterprises, or 3 per thousand of the total in the census, as well as 45,623 private-owned business or 1.1 per thousand of the total included in the census.

    The spot check shows that the data quality met the expected goal, according to the bulletin

    The first-ever national economic census, which formally began on Dec. 31, 2004, was designed to draw an economic panorama of thecountry's fast-expanding secondary and tertiary industries and complete a database covering all economic sectors.

    The survey covers such economic sectors as construction, transportation, and scientific research. It collects information on staff size, financial conditions and productivity management. Enditem