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A General Consistency Check Procedure for Machine-Readable Data

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  • Richard C. Roistacher

    (Center for Advanced Computation University of Illinois)

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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.

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  • Richard C. Roistacher, 1976. "A General Consistency Check Procedure for Machine-Readable Data," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 4(3), pages 301-320, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:4:y:1976:i:3:p:301-320
    DOI: 10.1177/004912417600400302
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