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Confidence Level Indicators (CLI)

Confidence Level Indicators (CLI) are what AuthentiQuest (AQ) uses to inform the data consumer about the quality of the data returned to them.  Internally, AQ keeps track of the CLIs in a single value.  Each CLI indicator is really a reference to a bit position in the single value.  AQ has features to customize the search, matching and data return process.  The results of an AQ search are dependent upon these customized features.  As a result, the CLI output is dependent upon these features. 

All of the XML CLI tags will contain only two possible values.  They are "1" for true and "0" for false.  Remember, the results of the CLI tag values are based upon the feature settings of the AQ engine.  Each access code has it's own feature settings.  Using the CLI XML tag names as a reference, the CLIs are:

Value XML Tag Name Description
0 CLINONE This indicates that AQ could not find anything to match in it's database
2 CLISTREET This indicates that AQ found a match on a version street names

If this is the only CLI true, then the appended data should not be considered good.  If appended data is returned with this CLI set to true, then the data should only be considered good, if one or more of the other CLIs are set to true.
Unless another indicator is turned on, this means only the street name was matched, with fuzzy logic.
4 CLIUNIT This indicates that AQ found a match on a unit number on a street.
Unless another indicator is turned on, this means only the unit and street were matched.
16 CLIHOUSE This indicates that AQ found a match on a house number on a street.
32 CLIPHONE This indicates that AQ found a match on the phone number.
Unless another indicator is turned on, this means only the phone number matches.
64 CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME This indicates that AQ used the matches from street names, units, houses, and phone numbers to find a SoundEx match on the last name.
This indicator should never be returned by itself.  If it is, then the appended data (if any) should be ignored). 
32768 CLIAQ This indicates that AQ "matched" the data to its database.  This should be considered an excellent match.

However, if you are looking for an exact match on a specific individual, you should always compare the submitted first name with the returned first name.  If you feature settings allow you to return more than one person in a household, then you will need to compare against the list of people returned.  The returned data is located in the XML node AQRECORDDATA.

For more details about the AQ matching process, click here.


The most likely combined values of a CLI returned (other than the fixed values) are:
18 Street name and house matched CLISTREET, CLIHOUSE
34 Street name and phone number matched CLISTREET, CLIPHONE
50 Unit, house and phone number matched CLIUNIT, CLIHOUSE, CLIPHONE
66 Street name and SoundEx on last name matched CLISTREET, CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME
82 Street name, house and SoundEx on last name matched CLISTREET, CLIHOUSE, CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME
96 Phone number and SoundEx on last name matched CLIPHONE, CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME
98 Street name, phone number and SoundEx on last name matched CLISTREET, CLIPHONE, CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME
114 Street name, house, phone number and SoundEx on last name matched CLISTREET, CLIHOUSE, CLIPHONE, CLISOUNDEXLASTNAME