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JSM 2002 Abstract #301029
Activity Number: 151
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 12, 2002 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods*
Abstract - #301029
Title: NCHS Quality Guidelines
Author(s): Kenneth Harris*+
Affiliation(s): National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 915, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20782,
Keywords: validity ; comparibility ; reproducability
Abstract:

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has mandated that all Federal agencies, by October1, 2002, place on their Web sites guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of their disseminated information. This mandate is not intended to suggest or imply that such guidelines do not now exist, but rather that agencies must take steps to assure their availability to the public. Additionally, each agency's website must provide a clearly delineated correction procedure policy.

This paper will describe the major quality guidelines used at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and thus to be included on its Web site. NCHS, as the Federal agency responsible for the collection and dissemination of the nation's vital and health statistics, operates nearly twenty data systems that comprise the NCHS family of surveys and registration systems. These guidelines, in whole or in part, apply to all of the NCHS data systems.

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