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BJS Data Quality Guidelines

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Data Quality Guidelines

  1. Overview: BJS and the OMB Guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated by federal agencies
  2. The Functions of BJS
  3. OMB guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated by federal agencies: BJS Performance Standards
  4. Principles and practices for a federal statistical agency
  5. BJS Partnerships and affiliations
  6. BJS and Professional ethics
  7. Federal legislation, rules, and regulations governing BJS statistics
  8. Overview: BJS Data Quality Guidelines
  9. Guidelines for Privacy and Maintaining Confidentiality of Data
  10. Guidelines for Initiating Surveys, Censuses, and Other Data Collections
  11. Guidelines for Survey Design and Data Collections
  12. Guidelines for Data Transparency, Analysis, and Processing
  13. Guidelines for Content and Verification of BJS Statistics
  14. Guidelines for Dissemination

Correction Procedures
   XV. Procedures to Seek Correction of BJS Statistics

Appendix - A "Influential" BJS Statistics for the purposes of the BJS Data Quality Guidelines

Appendix B See Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice, American Statistical Association

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Date Created: May 27, 2021