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Activity Number:
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323
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #306454 |
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Title:
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Quality Issues in a Regulatory Data Collection System
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Author(s):
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Alan K. Jeeves*+
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Companies:
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Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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Address:
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400 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC, 20590,
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Keywords:
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data quality ; editing ; imputation ; regulatory data
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Abstract:
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The Federal Aviation Act requires all air carriers to report traffic and financial information to the DOT. Although these data collection systems originally supported airline regulation by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the government and private sector still use these data to monitor industry competition and financial condition. A new impetus for data quality occurred with the recent enactment of the Rural Service Improvement Act, which established BTS airline data as the basis for determining carrier eligibility and payment rates for intra-Alaskan mail transport. Our research showed that although the scope of the edit procedures could be broadened, the main problem was that the number of records flagged exceeded the available resources to fix them. Maximizing data quality requires recognition that since not all errors can be fixed, the focus must be on the most egregious.
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