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Convert numerical entries for suck items as amount of wood burned to the desired
dimensions, rounding when necessary.
* Keep lists of write-in responses to "other" categories for several questions which have
this response option. These lists are used later in processing to recode some of the
"other" responses to other existing or newly created categories.
Refer unusual types of entries and other problems to a special coding and editing
section or to designated technicians.
Editing and coding of the housing nit measurement section of the Household Survey
questionnaire require certain particularly complex tasks, such as dealing with measurements for
floors having shapes that are not simple rectangles.
There is no formal verification system for the mani editing and coding operations. The
subsequent computer-assisted edits provide an opportunity to detect some of the errors that may
have been overlooked or introduced by the editors. One example of findings from such checks
is provided in the next subsection.
Data keying is performed by a separate EIA contractor. Batch tapes of keyed data are transmitted
to EiA and loaded to its main computer, where they are used by Response Analysis Corporation,
the main contractor, to create unedited data files for each source and perform the computer edits.
For the 1981, 1982, and 1984 surveys, key Household Survey questionnaire items were
100-percent verified and the remaining items verified for a 25-percent sample of households.
However, a review of the changes that had been made during processing operations for the 1984
Household and Supplier Surveys showed that keying errors were leading to substantial numbers
of computer edit rejects (Jabine 1987). The costs of processing these rejects were deemed to
exceed the savings front sample verification of data entry and there was also no guarantee that
the computer edits and special reports would detect all keying errors. Consequently, beginning
with the 1987 RECS, all keying has been 100-percent verified.
Computer-Assisted Edits
Figure 6.3 shows the difarcnt kinds of computer-assisted edit checks used in RECS. Range
check are applied to values for individual variables from all of the survey components of RECS.
Simple range checks ensure that no illegal or impossible variable values are included in the final
records. Outlier checks identify, for clerical review, values for continuous variables that may be
correct but are unusually high or low for that variable.
(mernal consistency checks are also applied to data from all of the RECS survey components.
Most comroty, these cheeks examine relationships of responses for different variables for the
same household. Some checks involve comparisons of data for the same household from the
current and prior rounds of RECS. For example, housing unit area measurements may be
compared for the current and immediately preceding round. Such checks can be used only in
those survey years for which the sample includes a longitudinal component and only for the
housing units that were in the sample both times.
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