A General Consistency Check Procedure for Machine-Readable Data

Richard C. Roistacher
Additional contact information
Richard C. Roistacher: Center for Advanced Computation University of Illinois

Sociological Methods & Research, 1976, vol. 4, issue 3, 301-320

Abstract: Several levels of data "cleaning" and editing are discussed, and a standard terminology for data-consistency checking and editing is developed. Consistency checking can occur at the level of data structure, syntax, or semantics. A consistency check either may be unconditional, depending only on the value of a single variable; or it may depend on the joint values of the members of a set of variables. The result of a consistency check may be expressed as the value of a vector whose elements indicate the consistency status of each variable in the set. The vector of return codes from a check can be managed and displayed by adding them to the set of variables, and by using them as input to a report generator or to an editing procedure.

Date: 1976
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/004912417600400302 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:somere:v:4:y:1976:i:3:p:301-320

DOI: 10.1177/004912417600400302

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Sociological Methods & Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().