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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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68
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 1, 2010 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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Abstract - #307159 |
Title:
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Current Records Linkage Research and Practice at the U.S. Census Bureau
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Author(s):
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Dean Resnick*+ and Dean Resnick
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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, , ,
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Keywords:
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record linkage ;
ACS ;
Administrative Records
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Abstract:
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The identification of American Community Survey respondents allows survey responses to be linked to administrative record files for analysis of response error and other purposes. Currently the Census Bureau uses a record linkage technique that compares a weighted sum of several comparisons (e.g., first name, year-of-birth, etc.) to a match threshold, deeming those record pairs exceeding the threshold to be valid matches. While this technique allows over 90% identification of respondents, it can potentially be improved by taking advantage of the relative frequency of names, dates-of-birth, place-of-birth etc. to compute the likelihood of spurious agreement across fields. Knowing the likelihood of spurious matches allows a computation of an estimated likelihood that pairs of records from the two files that are being matched together truly represent the same individual.
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