Statistical Commission and Conference of European Statisticians Un/ece Work Session on Statistical Metadata Metadata and Data Quality
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1. The purpose of this paper is to discuss statistical metadata (hereinafter called metadata) from the survey methodologist’s perspective. In particular, metadata as it relates to data quality is the main theme. We develop this by examining the metadata needs for a methodologist from the perspective of the design and evaluation of a specific measurement objective in a specific survey: the collection and classification (or coding) of industry and occupation (I&O) data for persons in the Current Population Survey (CPS) (Abraham and Prewitt, 2000).
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