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Balance Edit

An edit which checks that a total equals the sum of its parts. Also called an accounting edit.

Example: Closing inventory = Opening Inventory + Purchases - Sales

Source: UNECE Data Editing Group 

Banff

Banff is a processing system that was developed at Statistics Canada to meet the requirements of the Canadian economic surveys. Banff replaces the previous system GEIS (see GEIS in the Glossary). Its main features are:

1. an outlier detection function for univariate detection

2. an error localization function which uses a minimum change approach, and

3. an imputation function which performs deterministic imputation, donor imputation, imputation by estimators and mass imputation.

A more complete description is available in the Banff evaluation page, on this site.

Source: Banff Support Team, Statistics Canada (fe-banff@statcan.gc.ca)

Batch Data Review

A review of many questionnaires in one batch occurs after data entry. It generally results in a file of error messages. This file may be printed for use in preparing corrections. The data records may be split into two files. One file contains the "good" records and one containing data records with errors. The other file can be corrected using an interactive process.

Source: UNECE Data Editing Group