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provide enumerators’ needs of transportation, pre-cooperation with
establishment’s owner, providing the necessary documents etc.
They also control and confirm the accuracy of data by technical editing
and revising the gathered data from previous steps. If there is any necessity,
experts control the data of establishments case by case and compare the
gathered data with financial statement or register-based information, if there
are available. Here, thought all the tasks have high importance in the quality
of data, improving in the quality of this phase needs to consider
supplementary acts as below:
1. Proving guidelines and manuals with more highlighting on quality
(Quality tips)
2. Improving the quality of educational courses
3. Employing the more talented and experienced enumerators
4. More emphasis on cases especially those establishments revealed their
audited financial statements before the survey
5. Applying persuasive policies for full completion, better cooperation
and less non-responded units

However, there are different kinds of data accuracy controls and applying
editing methods, this data base needs more cleansings and purifications to be
get ready for dissemination process. This target will be cover at next level
which is somehow the basic issue of this paper.

Table4. Process description- step 4
Level Title Sub-divisions Improvable
4 purification Data verification Yes
Micro editing Yes
Macro editing Yes
Tabulation Yes
Confidentiality check No

At this level, there are extremely important factors which affect the data
quality. After creation of database, verification of real data and confirmed data
from experts in the provincials are very important. As far as all provincials have
not the same of samples and volumes, there are some differences should be
considered perfectly. It is assuming that all the data had been finalized in the
last level and editing shall be done on the confirmed data by provincials’

experts. Micro editing includes considering the control and checking the data
accuracy from general information of establishments to financial data.

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