<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Producers of large government-sponsored surveys regularly use Computer-Assisted Interviewing (CAI) software to design data collection instruments, monitor fieldwork operations, and evaluate data quality. When used in conjunction with responsive survey designs, last-minute modifications to problems in the field are quickly addressed. Complementing this strategy, but little discussed, is the need to implement similar changes in the post data collection stage of the survey data life cycle. We describe a continuous data processing system where completed interviews are carefully examined as soon as they are collected; editing, recode, and imputation programs are applied using CAI tools; and the results are reviewed to correct problematic cases. The goal: provide higher quality data and shorten the time between the conclusion of data collection and the appearance of public use data files.</p></abstract>

Producers of large government-sponsored surveys regularly use Computer-Assisted Interviewing (CAI) software to design data collection instruments, monitor fieldwork operations, and evaluate data quality. When used in conjunction with responsive survey designs, last-minute modifications to problems in the field are quickly addressed. Complementing this strategy, but little discussed, is the need to implement similar changes in the post data collection stage of the survey data life cycle. We describe a continuous data processing system where completed interviews are carefully examined as soon as they are collected; editing, recode, and imputation programs are applied using CAI tools; and the results are reviewed to correct problematic cases. The goal: provide higher quality data and shorten the time between the conclusion of data collection and the appearance of public use data files.

Enhancing Survey Quality: Continuous Data Processing Systems

Journal of Official Statistics

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Producers of large government-sponsored surveys regularly use Computer-Assisted Interviewing (CAI) software to design data collection instruments, monitor...

Enhancing Survey Quality: Continuous Data Processing Systems

Published Online: Jun 18, 2019

Page range: 337 - 352

Received: Aug 01, 2016

Accepted: Sep 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2019-0016

Keywords
Data quality, curation, tools, dissemination

© 2019 Karl Dinkelmann et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Enhancing Survey Quality: Continuous Data Processing Systems

Published Online: Jun 18, 2019

Page range: 337 - 352

Received: Aug 01, 2016

Accepted: Sep 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2019-0016

KeywordsData quality, curation, tools, dissemination

© 2019 Karl Dinkelmann et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Data quality, curation, tools, dissemination