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Abstract #301354

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Activity Number: 309
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301354
Title: Building a Sampling Frame from Multiple Lists: Identifying Organizations in the Voluntary and Not-for-profit Sector in Canada
Author(s): Linda L. Lefebvre*+ and Peter G. Wright
Companies: Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada
Address: RHC 17-O, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada
Keywords: hierarchical exact matching ; record linkage
Abstract:

Voluntary and not-for-profit organizations are increasingly being recognized for the important role they play in Canadian society, yet efforts to improve the capacity of these organizations to fulfill their missions are constrained by the lack of information about their characteristics. As part of an initiative by the Canadian government to study the not-for-profit and voluntary sector, Statistics Canada conducted a survey to collect baseline information on the function, size, and roles of organizations in this sector and the benefits that they work to provide. To create a sampling frame, it was necessary to resolve the many-to-many matches of organizations that appeared on source lists of not-for-profit businesses and charities at the federal and provincial levels. Hierarchical exact matching helped to eliminate multiple cases as well as to increase the information available for many of the records on the sampling frame. We will discuss the practical aspects of file preparation, record linkage and hierarchical matching. The discussion will focus primarily on creating sampling frames of smaller businesses.

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