Data management system. Part II, the management of data for analysis

Gerald Levitt

Published 1981

Second in a series (see N-1029) describing the system planned to audit, store, organize, and process data to be gathered in the then-forthcoming Housing Assistance Supply Experiment. Data audit would be a quality-control check on field operations, performed by computer, and producing statistics and quality-control information, summary reports of audit runs, printouts of questionnaires, and ancillary files. Questionnaire records passing the audit would be processed for storage in a form easily retrievable, reordered or reorganized, with separate files for each major analytic unit. Data would be reorganized for longitudinal and linked analyses; master files would be analyzed directly. Data management was planned through 1974, with the long-range aim of integrating the system so human intervention would be necessary only at key decision points (e.g., variable specification).

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  • Copyright: RAND Corporation
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  • Year: 1981
  • Pages: 34
  • Document Number: N-1034-HUD

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Levitt, Gerald, Data management system. Part II, the management of data for analysis. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1981. https://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1034.html.
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