United States Department of Agriculture

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Electronic Data Reporting and Data Collection
Edits at the National Agricultural Statistics
Service
United States Department of Agriculture National
Agricultural Statistics Service
A presentation by Dan Beckler for UNECE Work
Session on Statistical Data Editing May 16-18,
2005 Ottawa, ON
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Electronic Data Reporting at NASS

• Web paper questionnaires created with in-house
  developed Question Repository System (QRS)
• Client-server application
• Creates properly formatted questions, stored in
  database, retrieved to produce questionnaires
• Maintains a consistency between paper Web
• More efficiently creates questionnaires for the
  two modes than if done separately
• Programming skills not required by QRS users (QRS
  used by questionnaire designers)

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Data Collection Edits at NASS

• Edits for CATI (Blaise), Web, and pen--paper (by
  interviewers)
• Purpose collect higher quality data avoid
  imputation or burdensome call-backs
• Most data are numerical values (1) range edits,
  (2) balance edits, (3) relationship edits
• Edits are either hard or soft
• Subsets of post-data collection edits
• Pen--paper edits Web edits CATI edits

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