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5 End of Day 1: Discussant Remarks and Floor Discussion
Pages 55-60

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... The degree of centralization characterizing administrative structures is another important factor contributing to differences. Nevertheless, the presen tations can serve as a wake-up call for the statistical community in the United States to consider household survey systems in other countries and to aspire to learn from the experience of others.
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From page 56...
... The index will, of course, be based on a biased sample, with not nearly the right coverage of grocery stores, but if there is demand to get a leading indicator of the CPI without having to wait for data to arrive from an agency whose field representatives are visiting stores or calling people and asking what they paid for a gallon of milk, the Google CPI, or a more disaggregated version of it, can be useful for statistical modeling. However, this does not mean that the statistical community should be accepting all new methodologies that come along.
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From page 57...
... Zaslavsky added that it is also worth mentioning that the greatest threats to privacy and consequences of breaches are from the commercial sector, not government data collections. For example, being denied a home loan because someone stole your credit card is a scenario that is a lot more likely than confidential data being released by a government agency.
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From page 58...
... The goal of the initiative was to develop a system that enables the collection of comparable data across countries and to build a master sam pling frame that would allow linkages to occur. She added that, in the National Agricultural Statistics Service, which focuses on rural statistics, access to a household sampling frame would enable the agency to better meet some of its data needs than what is currently feasible given the design of the American Community Survey.
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From page 59...
... Bethlehem provided an example from Statistics Netherlands to illustrate how relationships can be studied using administrative data. Statistics Netherlands combined police register data with population register data to examine relationships between ethnic background and crimes committed.
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From page 60...
... that outlined several pilot programs for the use of administrative records, OMB staff met with privacy advocates. Despite these conversations, it remains unclear whether many of these privacy issues have been fully parsed out with this community, and they have definitely not been parsed out with the public.
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