How good are administrative register data and what can we do about it?

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How good are administrative register data and what can we do about it? Daniel Oberski / [email protected] Department of methodology & statistics Data science pitch - 2015-04-10 Administrative register data Daniel Oberski / [email protected]

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How good are administrative register data andwhat can we do about it?

Daniel Oberski / [email protected]

Department of methodology & statisticsData science pitch - 2015-04-10

Administrative register data Daniel Oberski / [email protected]

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Participation in survey researchfor social-scientific purposes

35%

(Bethlehem & Schouten 2004);

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Administrative register data Daniel Oberski / [email protected]

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"Donnéestrouvées":+ Useful for science;- Not meant for science.

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Currentproblem:

Register data havemeasurementerrors.

These lead toseriousbiases.

Currentoptions:

Ignore registerdata,

or

Ignore errors.

Ourprojects:..1 Develop statistical

methods to estimateextent of errors;

..2 Correct analyses forbias.

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PhD projects

Laura BoeschotenRoline Kamphuis

Veni(2014)

Developing novel latentvariable techniques thatopen up a treasure troveof register data for socialscience

Organizationsingrants/research

CBSFederal Employment

AgencyGem. AmsterdamADRCGermanRLCTCRN

Maincollaborators

Frauke Kreuter(Maryland/Mannheim)

Ton de Waal(CBS / TiU)

Jeroen Vermunt(TiU)

Bart Bakker(CBS / VU)

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Thanks.

[email protected]

Bicycle wheel (1913)Marcel Duchamp

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