OMB Individually Reported

CE Interview Imputations

Low riskExact public inventory row

Description

Imputes missing expenditure values in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey when respondents answer “don’t know” or refuse to provide an expense amount.

Detailed example

These output numbers are rounded up to the nearest whole value or rounded to 0 if negative. The output is only used to complete the Consumer Price Index.

AI / analytics pattern

Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.

Automation level / stage

c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.

Expected benefit

Uses more sophisticated statistical techniques to estimate missing values

Audit / financial statement impact

Used for survey processing for statistical purposes

Controls / human review

ATO: Yes; PIA: N/A

Data needed

Agency Generated