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Data Quality Guidelines - Overview

•  I. Overview: BJS and the OMB Guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated by Federal agencies
•  II. The Functions of BJS
•  III. OMB guidelines to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated by Federal agencies: BJS Performance Standards
•  IV. Principles and practices for a Federal Statistical agency
•  V. BJS Partnerships and affiliations
•  VI. BJS and Professional ethics
•  VII. Federal legislation, rules, and regulations governing BJS statistics

 BJS Data Quality Guidelines

•  VIII. Overview
•  IX. Privacy and Maintaining Confidentiality of Data
•  X. Initiating Surveys, Censuses, and Other Data Collections
•  XI. Survey Design and Data Collections
•  XII. Data Transparency, Analysis, and Processing
•  XIII. Content and Verification of BJS Statistics
•  XIV. 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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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
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Agency Information Quality Guidelines