Topic ii Editing of electronic collections Topic organizer

Topic (ii) Editing of electronic collections Topic organizer Pedro Revilla, INE Spain Topics of interest Methods or strategies about editing of data acquired through electronic data collection (CAPI, CATI, CAWI, etc) Comparisons of editing practices between electronic collections and other collection modes, as well as different problems using multimode data collections Editing strategies to improve relationship with respondents or the general editing process Editing strategies in new production processes

Papers Canada – The evolution of edits in the Canadian Census of Population online questionnaires, Danielle Laroche (Key Invited paper) Netherlands – Editing of mixed source data for turnover statistics, Jeffrey Hoogland (Invited paper) Spain – Towards a corporate-wide electronic data collection system at the National Statistical Institute of Spain, Pedro Revilla, José Luis Maldonado and José Manuel Bercebal (Invited paper)

General context · Challenges of public statistical institutions · New technologies (IT tools and statistical methods) could improve editing processes Point in common Use of new technologies in order to improve efficiency and quality

Data editing “good practice”: moving editing closer to respondent Going a step further: integrating the respondents in editing Electronic questionnaires offer many opportunities (built-in edits)

Some crucial questions How to integrate EDR with existing statistical systems ? How to ensure uniformity when different modes of data collection are used? How to increase the take-up of electronic questionnaires? How to design editing strategies in order to obtain a optimum trade-off between components of quality? . . . ?