Definition: Item imputation

Category: Population censuses

Insertion of an artificial but plausible value on a specific topic into a data record that already exists in a data source but either does not contain this value or contains a value that is considered implausible (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/881).

Insertion of artificial but plausible information into a data record where the data record already exists in a data source but does not contain this information (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2017.135.01.0006.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2017:135:TOC European Union, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010 of 8 December 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses, as regards the modalities and structure of the quality reports and the technical format for data transmission, Official Journal of the European Union No L 324, 9.12.2010