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Activity Number:
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239
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #309244 |
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Title:
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Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Construction of Integrated Datasets To Serve Policy Research Purposes
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Author(s):
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Michael Davern*+
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Companies:
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The University of Minnesota
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Address:
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2221 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55414,
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Keywords:
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administrative data ; survey data ; policy research ; survey methods
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Abstract:
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Survey data have limitations for policy research yet they continue to be widely used because, despite these limitations surveys are the only sour source for some data we need to predict, evaluate and learn about the impact of potential changes and actual changes in policy. Public program administrative data that are used to keep track of program beneficiaries are beginning to be used in combination with survey data to create new linked data products. The potential uses of these linked data products for improving policy research are tremendous but many issues need to be dealt with before these linked data products begin to overtake the popularity of survey public use microdata for policy analysis. In this paper we set out a research agenda for improving linked data files for policy research.
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