Arbeitspapier
The Data Quality Concept of Accuracy in the Context of Public Use Data Sets
Like other data quality dimensions, the concept of accuracy is often adopted to characterise a particular data set. However, its common specification basically refers to statistical properties of estimators, which can hardly be proved by means of a single survey at hand. This ambiguity can be resolved by assigning ?accuracy? to survey processes that are known to affect these properties. In this contribution, we consider the sub-process of imputation as one important step in setting up a data set and argue that the so called ?hit-rate? criterion, that is intended to measure the accuracy of a data set by some distance function of ?true? but unobserved and imputed values, is neither required nor desirable. In contrast, the so-called ?inference? criterion allows for valid inferences based on a suitably completed data set under rather general conditions. The underlying theoretical concepts are illustrated by means of a simulation study. It is emphasised that the same principal arguments apply to other survey processes that introduce uncertainty into an edited data set.
- Language
-
Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
-
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 586
- Classification
-
Wirtschaft
Statistical Simulation Methods: General
Estimation: General
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Bayesian Analysis: General
Classification Discontinued 2008. See C83.
- Subject
-
Survey Quality
Survey Processes
Accuracy
Assessment of Imputation Methods
Multiple Imputation
- Event
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
-
Kuchler, Carsten
Spiess, Martin
- Event
-
Veröffentlichung
- (who)
-
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
- (where)
-
Berlin
- (when)
-
2006
- Handle
- Last update
-
10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
Data provider
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.
Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kuchler, Carsten
- Spiess, Martin
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Time of origin
- 2006
Other Objects (12)
The Data Quality Concept of Accuracy in the Context of Public Use Data Sets
Concept Identification for Complex Data Sets
On the data set’s ruins
The accuracy of international trade data
Accuracy of phylogeny reconstruction methods combining overlapping gene data sets
Probabilistic data association: the orbit set
Improving the prediction accuracy in classification using the combined data sets by ranks of gene expressions
Assessing the FAIRness of Data Sets in Trustworthy Data Repositories
The generation of EarthCARE L1 test data sets using atmospheric model data sets
From data to climatological indices - the case of the Grotzfeld data set
Comparing analog and digital measurements of the skull : accuracy of measurements based on the Fordisc® data set
Methodological aspects of the SAVE data set
The Data Quality Concept of Accuracy in the Context of Public Use Data Sets
Concept Identification for Complex Data Sets
On the data set’s ruins
The accuracy of international trade data
Accuracy of phylogeny reconstruction methods combining overlapping gene data sets
Probabilistic data association: the orbit set
Improving the prediction accuracy in classification using the combined data sets by ranks of gene expressions
Assessing the FAIRness of Data Sets in Trustworthy Data Repositories
The generation of EarthCARE L1 test data sets using atmospheric model data sets
From data to climatological indices - the case of the Grotzfeld data set
Comparing analog and digital measurements of the skull : accuracy of measurements based on the Fordisc® data set
Methodological aspects of the SAVE data set
The Data Quality Concept of Accuracy in the Context of Public Use Data Sets
Concept Identification for Complex Data Sets
On the data set’s ruins
The accuracy of international trade data
Accuracy of phylogeny reconstruction methods combining overlapping gene data sets
Probabilistic data association: the orbit set
Improving the prediction accuracy in classification using the combined data sets by ranks of gene expressions
Assessing the FAIRness of Data Sets in Trustworthy Data Repositories
The generation of EarthCARE L1 test data sets using atmospheric model data sets
From data to climatological indices - the case of the Grotzfeld data set
Comparing analog and digital measurements of the skull : accuracy of measurements based on the Fordisc® data set