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Appendix B: BLS Communication of Issues
Pages 208-214

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From page 208...
... collectively form the requirements for the survey, the program managers ask that the panel members treat the CE Data Requirements as the mandatory requirements for the survey. The CPI data requirements document is still helpful in terms of providing larger context for data usage, but these are not requirements that the panel's recommendations needs to meet.
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From page 209...
... The mission encompasses analyzing CE data to produce socio-economic studies of consumer spending and providing CE data users with assistance, education, and tools for working with the data. CE supports the mission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and therefore CE data must be of consistently high statistical quality, relevant, and timely, and it must protect respondent confidentiality.
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From page 210...
... Data collection technologies currently available or likely to be available in practical form with the next five years; iii.  Administrative record and external data sources and technolo gies currently available or likely to be available in practical form with the next five years; and iv.
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From page 211...
... or by providing respondents the ability to easily record purchases in real time. While retrieval of data from memory in a standard reactive interview is appropriate for a number of data elements, CE views a proactive data collection methodology for expenditure data as a high priority.
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From page 212...
... 2.  Does the redesign meet the current requirements of CPI, an assessment of which includes an evaluation by CPI of the efficacy of alternative approaches in the cases where the redesigned CE does not meet its current technical detailed requirements?
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From page 213...
... These design elements would be fundamentally dif ferent from those of the current CE surveys, and potentially include innovative features such as the use of mobile devices (e.g., smart phones, PDAs, tablets) , financial software, elec tronic purchase records, receipt scanning, and auxiliary data.
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From page 214...
... The redesigned CE must allow for a straightforward integration of the various data sources into one complete picture of spending at the microdata level. (Note: this is a new requirement which is not met by the current design/processing system.)
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Key Terms

  • data users
  • data requirements
  • current design
  • redesign options
  • technical requirements

  • missing data
  • microdata files
  • synthetic data
  • data producer
  • division chief

  • current technical
  • proposed design
  • design recommendations
  • household survey
  • options workshop

  • design options
  • consumer spending
  • cpi requirements
  • requirements document
  • future cpi

  • cpi information
  • involves imputation
  • gies currently
  • larger context
  • receipt scanning

  • collection design
  • carefully balanced
  • addressing issues
  • bls data
  • private data


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