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4 Creating New Data Resources with Administrative Records
4 Creating New Data Resources with Administrative Records
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The chapter relies in part on the workshop session Opportunities for Using Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Major Survey Programs. Section 4.1 describes the potential for creating longitudinal datasets from administrative records, illustrating the concept with examples of three databases created by the U.S.
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re viewed the proliferation of statistics from administrative data that followed these initial statistics on foreign commerce.
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from economic census records and administrative data from the IRS and SSA; the register is continually updated using information from U.S. Census Bureau programs and admin istrative records (see Section 4.1; U.S.
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• The U.S. Census Bureau developed the Statistical Administrative Records System in the late 1990s, combining seven national administrative records datasets to test the feasibility of an administrative records census (Prevost & Leggieri, 1999; Judson, 2000)
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Census Bureau projects that create longitudinal databases from administrative records and decennial censuses. Wagner and Layne (2014)
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The U.S. Census Bureau's administrative data inventory can be found at https://www2.census.gov/about/ linkage/data-file-inventory.pdf 3 See https://www.census.gov/econ/overview/mu0600.html and https://www.census.gov/ programs-surveys/ces/data/restricted-use-data/longitudinal-business-database.html for descriptions of the Business Register and Longitudinal Business Database.
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Census Bureau's linkage procedure, which allows demographic information to be appended. Additional information is linked from surveys (including the Current Population Survey [CPS]
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Census Bureau, will create a longitudinal database u of records from decennial censuses from 1940 through 2020.8 Records from 1940, 2000, 2010, and 2020 have already been linked. Combining records from other censuses is challenging because the digitized microdata for 1960 through 1990 contain all variables from the censuses except the one piece of information crucial for linking the records -- the respondent names.
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Some of that information comes from the decennial census and surveys that the U.S. Census Bureau conducts; other information comes from administrative records, private-sector data, or other sources.
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Census Bureau data resources, public records, and data acquired from private-sector sources. Keller et al.
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FIGURE 4-1 The U.S. Census Bureau's Frames project.
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. Obtaining a comprehensive picture of elder care requires data from many sources, including census and survey data about demographics, income, and health from federal statistical agencies; administrative data from agencies such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; information about nursing homes and their employees from sources such as the Business Register and the LEHD; data from state departments of public health and social services; and data from the private sector and nonprofit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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… The limited information about these people that may still be found in these sources could be more likely to be incomplete or inaccurate (e.g., emergency room visits by undocumented immigrants or the homeless) ." One essential aspect of administrative data linkage projects is ensuring public trust, as was emphasized in the previous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report in this series (NASEM, 2023)
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Census Bureau] can better recruit, develop, and retain a dynamic and diverse workforce." CONCLUSION 4-2: Linking administrative data and sampling frames can enable useful future data linkages for social science research and evidence-based policy analysis.
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These systems are expected to not only speed the production of data -- one short-term goal is for NCHS to receive at least 80 percent of mortality records within 10 days of the event -- but also promote more complete and more accurate information because data items can be validated as they are entered. The modernization is part of a larger effort within the CDC to collect more timely data and promote interoperability among data collections including vital records, electronic health records, and electronic laboratory reports (CDC, 2021a)
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. To provide insights on local issues, several state and regional collaboratives have formed to link state administrative data.
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Additional agreements with state agency data suppliers define the governance processes in place to authorize analytic activities that use ICDR data. Examples of the types of data for Washington State residents contained within the ICDR, some dating back to the 1990s, include:13 • Medicaid and Medicare claims data spanning domains of physical health, mental health, substance use disorder, long-term care, and developmental disabilities; • Child welfare system data; • Food and cash assistance data; • Vocational and supported employment services; • Housing program and homelessness data; • Vital records, including births and deaths; • Employment and earnings data from the unemployment insurance system; and • Criminal justice data spanning domains of arrest, jail booking, adjudication, incarceration, and community supervision.
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The Coleridge Initiative has organized collaborations that allow for regional data sharing and access.14 The Initiative does this by providing a secure cloud-based platform, the Administrative Data Research Facility, where confidential microdata can be accessed and linked. The provision of training programs to build the capacity of agency staff to work with the data is an important component of the initiative.
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State-level linkages have demonstrated the value of administrative data both for research and for state-level program monitoring and evaluation. While states have developed useful research and data privacy-protecting practices, cross-border population mobility and differing legal, technical, financial, and practical considerations across states make these initiatives difficult to scale to the national level.
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6) wrote that "many agencies are often too busy with business processes to assess their own data quality on a regular basis" and "an external hosting partner who reviews the data can provide an opportunity for data improvement." Documentation on using administrative datasets for statistical purposes must be prepared by researchers if not supplied by the originating agency.
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also mentioned issues that might make linking more difficult, such as names versus nicknames, errors in reporting identification information such as SSNs, and coding errors that might occur during data entry. Section 4.2 addresses one aspect of data equity for data integration efforts: the potential of improving statistics for historically underrepresented population subgroups by obtaining data from multiple sources.
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