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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• ? 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)

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• 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?
• ? ...?