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M.R. Jamilov, R.M. Jamilov: Factor-Augmented J-Curve

Table 1: Sample Adequacy Testing
MSA MSA
Alcoholic beverages 0.84 Telecommunications apparatus 0.62
Household equipment 0.56 Machines for special industries 0.82
Manufactures of metal 0.67 Clothing except fur clothing 0.38
Textile and leather machinery 0.81 Tubes ,pipes and fittings of iron 0.81
Furniture 0.74 Metalworking machinery 0.69
Musical instruments 0.57 Iron and steel scrap 0.75
Articles of paper & paperboard 0.83 Synthetic goods 0.86
Domestic electrical equipment 0.77 Leather 0.57
Other inorganic chemicals 0.64 Equipment for electricity 0.71
Sanitary, plumbing, heating 0.81 Other electrical machinery 0.74
Glass 0.83 Printed matter 0.76
Articles of artificial plastic mate 0.90 Office machines 0.71
Paper and paperboard 0.63 Petroleum products 0.72
Agricultural machinery 0.41 Chemical materials and products 0.46
Manufactured articles 0.62 Plastic materials 0.81
Veneers, plywood boards 0.74 Pulp & waste paper 0.79
Power generating machinery 0.68 Inorg. chemicals 0.42
Articles of rubber 0.76 Wood manufactures 0.81
Electric power machinery 0.76 Organic chemicals 0.78
Soaps, cleansing polishing tools 0.66 Pigments, paints, varnishes 0.62
Aircraft 0.71 Ships and boats 0.86
Watches and clocks 0.65 Hand Tools 0.69
Crude vegetable materials 0.41 Aluminium 0.71
Pharmaceutical products 0.79 Clay and refractory construction 0.89
Special textile fabrics and related 0.44 Universals, plates of iron 0.82
Nails, screws, nuts, bolts 0.76 Copper 0.88
Developed cinematographic film 0.50 Metal containers for storage 0.79
Scientific, medical, optical tools 0.44 Finished structural parts 0.48
Machinery and appliances 0.21 Road motor vehicles 0.76
Mineral manufacturing 0.70
Kaiser's MSA 0.7137
Note: MSA stands for Measurement of Sampling Adequacy. Kaiser‟s total sample
MSA of above 0.7 passes the test of sample appropriateness.

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