Enhancing Longitudinal Surveys by Linking to Administrative Data

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-72

  Calderwood, Lisa ^a   Lessof, Carli ^b  

^a Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Administrative data as research resource; Ethical and legal issues; Families and Children Study (FACS); Linking survey data with administrative data at individual level; Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS); Record linkage methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948761594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743874.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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