Data Quality Effects of Alternative Edit Parameters

by Katherine Jenny Thompson and Samson A. Adeshiyan

Journal of Data Science, v.1, no.1, 1-25.

Abstract

This paper describes a test of two alternative sets of ratio edit and imputation procedures, both using the U.S. Census Bureau's generalized editing/imputation subsystem ("`Plain Vanilla") on 1997 Economic Census data. We compare the quality of edited and imputed data --- at both the macro and micro levels --- from both sets of procedures and discuss how our quantitative methods allowed us to recommend changes to current procedures.