BJS Data Quality Guidelines

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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Related Information

From BJS

• BJS Statistical Principles and Practices

From other agencies

• Office Justice Programs (OJP), Information Quality Guidelines for Information Disseminated to the Public
• Department of Justice (DOJ), Information Quality Guidelines for Information Disseminated to the Public
  • Legal Policies and Disclaimers