A common method of estimating size of geographic markets for industrial products is based on distributing the national markets by the size of the consuming SIC industry groups in each area. In this article, geographic market estimates obtained by this SIC-estimating method are compared with actual market data, and an accuracy analysis of the estimates is presented.
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