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Activity Number: 549
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #320582
Title: Linking Federal Administrative Data to General Population Survey Samples
Author(s): Joseph Sakshaug* and Manfred Antoni and Reinhard Sauckel
Companies: and Institute for Employment Research and Institute for Employment Research
Keywords: administrative data ; record linkage ; surveys ; auxiliary data ; non-unique identifiers
Abstract:

Various forms of auxiliary information are being sought to augment survey samples and adjust for possible nonresponse bias in key survey estimates. Auxiliary data options are typically limited in most general population surveys and there are questions concerning their utility for nonresponse adjustment. Federal administrative databases provide a potentially rich source of auxiliary information for nonresponse adjustment, but linking them to general population samples is usually restricted to surveys which draw their samples from population registers containing unique personal identity numbers which can be directly linked to federal databases. In this article, we examine the feasibility of linking a federal administrative database to a general population survey sample in the absence of unique identifiers. We employ a series of indirect linkage procedures that rely instead on non-unique and error-prone identifiers collected from the sampling frame to link a federal employment database to a general population survey in Germany. The quality and selectivity of the established links are evaluated using a mix of household- and person-level interview data.


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