Federal Statistical Office
     Standardising data editing processes by 
     predefined work flows
                                            Powerpoint-Presentations:
                                                 DE as part of the data collection
                                                 DE by statisticians
                                            Properties and Expectations:
                                                 Cover current best practices
                                                 Work flows consist of mandatory 
                                                  and optional components -> 
                                                  Flexibility
                                                 Support of around 80 % of all 
                                                  existing and new data editing 
                                                  strategies
                                                 Relation to the collection of DE 
                                                  methods
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      Federal Statistical Office
      ITtools - Specifying checks 
                                                  PL-Editor:
                                                      Cross sectional database that 
                                                        stores data edting specifications
                                                      Support:
                                                           Specifying and analysis of 
                                                            characteristics, checks
                                                           Generating file structures, 
                                                            executable checking 
                                                            modules
                                                           Generating work manuals
                                                      Reuse of meta data for further 
                                                        statistical production
                                                      Will be used by all statistical 
      User interface of the PL-Editor                   offices  
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      Federal Statistical Office
     ITtools - Planning and management of 
     data editing processes
                                               Process Manager:
                                                    Preliminary tool: EXCEL spread 
                                                     sheet with implemented macros
                                                    Supports planning and 
                                                     management of standardised 
                                                     data editing processes
                                                    Implementation of methods 
                                                     derived from personnel 
                                                     employment and time scheduling:
                                                        Estimation of the time effort
                                                        Personnel employment
                                                        Time scheduling
                                                        Costs of personnel 
     Estimation of the time effort                       employment  
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      Federal Statistical Office
      A collection of SAS macros for the 
      support of selective and macro editing
          Support
                Selective editing method and macro editing method
                Comparisons of statistical results
                Computation of simple weighting factors
                Development and simulation of a selective editing method
          Components
                Collection of around 60 configurable SAS Macros (V 8.2) and 6 
                 related SAS-projects, documented completely in English, (partly 
                 under development)
                Guideline for the development of a selective and macro editing 
                 method in English (under development)
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