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Using the DISCRETE Edit System for ACS Surveys
Using the DISCRETE Edit System for ACS Surveys
RR2000-03
Abstract
This paper describes the application of the DISCRETE edit system to the American Community Surveys (ACS) for the questions of sex, age, householder relationship, marital status, and race. In order to compare and edit the ages of the persons in the same household, each household with more than 3 persons is converted into a three-person household. We will discuss how the edit system is used to incorporate the age comparison into an edit table, which is the input of the system. The DISCRETE edit system is based on the Fellegi and Holt model [1976] of editing. Advantages of using the DISCRETE edit system include that the logical consistency of the edit system can be performed before the real production begins and that an edit table is used as an input file instead of the if-then-else rules.
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