Definition: Validation edits

Category: UN - Data editing terminology

Edit checks which are made between fields in a particular record. This includes the checking of every field of every record to ascertain whether it contains a valid entry and the checking that entries are consistent with each other. http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/kbase/Glossary
Source:
Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UNECE), The Knowledge Base on Statistical Data Editing, Online glossary developed by the UNECE Data Editing Group, 2000
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