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EDITING A LARGE‐SCALE DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY–THE EXPERIENCE OF THE MELBOURNE FAMILY SURVEY 1
Author(s) -
Young C. M.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1973.tb00196.x
Subject(s) - coding (social sciences) , principal (computer security) , sample (material) , survey research , scale (ratio) , computer science , psychology , geography , statistics , cartography , applied psychology , mathematics , chemistry , chromatography , operating system
This paper discusses the editing procedures for a survey on family formation conducted in Melbourne during 1971. Examples are given of the incidence and types of inconsistencies revealed during the editing stage in the mainly quantitative variables concerning childbearing, numbers of children, and the demographic characteristics of the children. The principal point emphasized is the need for automatic detection and manual correction of coding deficiencies in a survey of this type, i.e. an intensive, “once‐off” survey, with a sample size of a few thousand, from which detailed and complex analyses are planned.