How to interpret confidence interval with accuracy phrase Upon reading a peer reviewed article, I found this:

A Chi-square test shows that the demographic characteristics of the sample represent Toyota GB’s hybrid customers (data obtained from the New Car Buyers Survey Britain 2007, provided by Toyota GB), with 2.7% accuracy and 99% confidence. 

I totally understand the concept of confidence interval , but I have not seen the accuracy part side by side with the confidence interval, can you explain what it means here specifically, or please point to me where I need to be reading?
 A: Here's my opinion on this. If you think a little about the question, the intuitive answer is this: while confidence interval describes the range of mean values for a sample, accuracy of a statistics describes margin of error in measuring values. This relation is not to be confused with related, but different, one of accuracy and precision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision. Actually, I believe that these relations represent exactly the same things, with the only essential difference being reversed terminology - what your question and much statistical materials refer to as confidence interval and accuracy, the above-mentioned Wikipedia article (and potentially other materials out there) refers to as accuracy and precision (see Figure below).

A detailed and IMHO very good explanation of a relation of and difference between confidence interval and accuracy can be found in the Chapter 20 of the second edition of Julian Simon's book "Resampling: The new statistics": http://www.resample.com/content/text/24-Chap-20.pdf. All chapters are available online here: http://www.resample.com/intro-text-online.
More confusing (to me), but nevertheless good and more statistically-focused explanation is this: http://www.bioconsulting.com/calculation_of_the_confidence_interval.htm.
Finally, another relevant discussion can be found here on Cross Validated site: Narrow confidence interval -- higher accuracy?.
It should be noted that often some papers, including statistical ones, use the term "accuracy" to denote a different meaning in a specific context, for example, to describe the ratio of true results of a medical diagnostic test to all results: http://www.lexjansen.com/nesug/nesug10/hl/hl07.pdf.
