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The title of my PhD research is "The effect of Technology Transfer on competitive advantage in Omani oil and gas industry". My research is a quantitative research and I'm going to use Structural equation modeling (SEM). The unit of analysis is the industry level.

This study focuses on the Omani oil and gas industry, thus the population includes members in managerial level who have worked with the Omani oil and gas companies.

The total number of employees working at the managerial level was 2640. A sample size (n = 260) will be randomly selected from the population (N=2640).

My question: in the case of using the "industry" as the unit of analysis, is it require to mention the name and number of oil companies which the sample has been selected from it?

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I don't understand your question. Please follow the advice given by Peter Flom on how to ask a statistical question. This is very vague. You haven't mentioned the topic, the research question. All I can get out of this is that industyr is the unit of analysis (maybe you mean sampling unit?) and maybe there is some hierarchy calling for a managerial level. This question needs a major revision to be answerable. Without that you won't get any answers and memebrs will vote to close it. I certainly would. – Michael Chernick Sep 21 '12 at 17:25
Here is the blog post w/ Peter Flom's discussion about How to ask a statistics question, that Michael is referring to. – gung Sep 22 '12 at 13:41
I think I waited long enough. I voted to close. – Michael Chernick Sep 22 '12 at 15:29
This looks like a question about reporting sampling method. I think the "industry level" reference must mean the research is looking at the industry as a whole and there is no interest in particular companies? Note that this is not how a statistician would normally use "unit of analysis". I suspect the researcher has a list of 2640 names of managers, and is asking does s/he need to report the oil companies they come from. I agree it is a poorly worded question just now - hopefully it will be edited and improved - and until clarified there is little point in trying to answer it. – Peter Ellis Sep 22 '12 at 21:57

closed as not a real question by Michael Chernick, Peter Ellis, Andy W, Macro, mbq♦ Oct 15 '12 at 12:11

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