EDITING AND IMPUTATION FOR ECONOMIC SURVEY DATA bY Roderick

This series contains research reports, written by or in cooperation with staff members of the Statistical Research Division, whose content may be of interest to the general statistical research community. The views reflected in these reports are not necessarily those of the Census Bureau nor do they necessarily represent Census Bureau statistical policy or practice. ABSTRACT At the U.S. Bureau of the Census, data in economic surveys may occasionally be missing as a result of a company's failure to respond to a certain question, for example. In addition, values of other variables may require editing because they are clearly implausible. Implausible (outlying) values may arise as a result of the failure of the respondent to understand the survey question. used to illustrate the method.