Matching techniques and administrative data records linkage
What is it about?
In this Paper we will focus on Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) experiment in matching different data sources from different ministries with PCBS Census 2012, the techniques and matching algorithms that used, the tools and software’s that used.
Why is it important?
Administrative records very important for official statistics instead of surveys to collect data for policy decisions also administrative records reduce the costs of data collection, increase the accuracy, administrative records will help to build the business register that will contain different variables such as owner name, establishment name, telephones, address and other variables that will help to match different sources using matching techniques to build the final business register based on different sources from the agencies like ministries, municipalities, chambers and other sources, so I will illustrate PCBS experiment and experiment in this field in this paper.