Abstract #301392

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301392
Activity Number: 370
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #301392
Title: An Overview of the Quality Control Program for the National Center for Health Statistics
Author(s): Kenneth W. Harris*+
Companies: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Address: 2 Spartan Ct., Olney, MD, 20832-3031,
Keywords: evaluation ; measurement ; reproducibility
Abstract:

Last year all federal agencies were mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to place on their websites guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity of their disseminated information. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is the the federal agency responsible for the collection and dissemination of the nation's vital and health statistics, met the OMB mandate through the combined efforts of staff from a variety of NCHS data systems. As a follow-up to those efforts, current procedures describing the major components of the NCHS Quality Control Program, such as survey planning, survey design, data collection, data processing, were systematically inventoried. Based on that inventory, this paper will present an overview of the NCHS Quality Control Program and describe how the program assures that the products of NCHS sample surveys and registration systems meet standards of reliability and validity.

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