Statistical Policy Working Papers

Overview

Statistical Policy Working Papers are prepared by FCSM members or FCSM subcommittees. Like other FCSM products, these papers convey the insights and best practices garnered from FCSM members, their agencies across the Federal statistical system.

These Statistical Policy Working Papers are not OMB Statistical Policy Directives. Statistical Policy Directives are issued by OMB and serve as minimum requirements for Federal statistical agencies and programs when they engage in statistical activities.

DATA QUALITY FRAMEWORK

• AI-Ready Federal Statistical Data: An Extension of Communicating Data Quality (FCSM 25-03)
• A Framework for Data Quality: Case Studies (FCSM 23-02)
• A Framework for Data Quality (FCSM 20-04)
• Transparent Reporting for Integrated Data Quality: Practices of Seven Federal Statistical Agencies (FCSM 19-01)

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Training for the Future: Addressing Tomorrow’s Survey Tasks, 1998 (WP 27)
• Federal Longitudinal Surveys, 1986 (WP 13)
• Contracting for Surveys, 1983 (WP 9)
• Statistical Interagency Agreements, 1982 (WP 8)
• Report on Statistics for Allocation of Funds, 1978 (WP 1.2)

QUESTION EVALUATION AND DATA COLLECTION

• Rural Definitions and Measurement, 2025 (FCSM 25-01)
• Analyzing Persistent Poverty Areas Using Federal Data, 2025 (FCSM 25-02)
• Evaluating Survey Questions: An Inventory of Methods, 2016 (WP 47)
• Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection, 1990 (WP 19)
• The Role of Telephone Data Collection in Federal Statistics, 1984 (WP 12)
• Approaches to Developing Questionnaires, 1983 (WP 10)

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS AND MATCHING

• Data Quality Assessment Tool for Administrative Data, 2013 (WP 46)
• Profiles in Success of Statistical Uses of Administrative Data, 2009 (WP 45)
• Report on Statistical Uses of Administrative Records, 1980 (WP 6)
• Report on Exact and Statistical Matching Techniques, 1980 (WP 5)

PROCESSING AND ESTIMATION

• Indirect Estimators in Federal Programs, 1993 (WP 21)
• Data Editing in Federal Statistical Agencies, 1990 (WP 18)
• A Review of Industry Coding Systems, 1984 (WP 11)

CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISSEMINATION

• Report on Electronic Dissemination of Statistical Data, 1995 (WP 24)
• Report on Statistical Disclosure Limitation Methodology, (Revised 2005), 1994 (WP 22)
• An Interagency Review of Time-Series Revision Policies, 1982 (WP 7)
• Report on Statistical Disclosure and Disclosure-Avoidance Techniques, 1978 (WP 2)

SURVEY QUALITY

• A Systematic Review of Nonresponse Bias Studies in Federally Sponsored Surveys (FCSM 20-02)
• Response Rate Summit: Summary Report, 2002 (WP 44)
• Measuring and Reporting Sources of Error in Surveys, 2001 (WP 31)
• Survey Coverage, 1990 (WP 17)
• A Comparative Study of Reporting Units in Selected Employer Data Systems, 1990 (WP 16)
• Quality in Establishment Surveys, 1988 (WP 15)
• Glossary of Nonsampling Error Terms: An Illustration of a Semantic Problem in Statistics, 1978 (WP 4)
• An Error Profile: Employment as Measured by the Current Population Survey, 1978 (WP 3)