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Educational Attainment Dynamics in Wales: Insights through Data Linkage and Geographically Weighted Regression

International Journal of Population Data Science
Quantifying the determinants of educational attainment requires a multifaceted approach encompassing various domains, including individual, family, household, neighbourhood, and school.
Alexandra Sandu, Jennifer Keating, Katy Huxley, Rob French, Anthony Whiffen   +4 more
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Utilising identifier error variation in linkage of large administrative data sources

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background Linkage of administrative data sources often relies on probabilistic methods using a set of common identifiers (e.g. sex, date of birth, postcode). Variation in data quality on an individual or organisational level (e.g.
Katie Harron, Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Ruth Gilbert, Harvey Goldstein   +3 more
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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance [PDF]

This paper uses administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of job training program impact estimates based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In addition to simple regression adjustment, we consider Mahalanobis distance matching and
Alexey Gorislavsky, Kenneth Troske, Peter R. Mueser   +2 more
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Simplifying Administration of Health Insurance [PDF]

, 2008
Reviews definitions and estimates of the insurance system's administrative costs and efforts to reduce them. Examines the potential of various reform proposals to simplify or further complicate the system.

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First-generation migrants’ use of psychotropic medication in Northern Ireland: a record linkage study

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2019
Purpose There is a recent and growing migrant population in Northern Ireland. However, rigorous research is absent regarding access to mental health care by different migrant groups.
Tania Bosqui, Dermot O’Reilly, Ari Väänänen, Kishan Patel, Michael Donnelly, David Wright, Ciara Close, Anne Kouvonen   +7 more
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The ADRN and the public’s voice: making administrative data available for research while gaining public trust

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Background This paper presents the way the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) has incorporated the results of public consultation into the core of its operations and policies.
Ilse Verwulgen
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The Administrative Data Research Network’s National Citizen’s Panel – A step towards bridging public concerns about research using administrative data.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Background The content of administrative records are both confidential and personal, therefore the use of administrative data for research purposes is rightly and naturally of concern to us all.
Judith Knight
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Local variation in the use of out-of-home care in England: analysis of linked administrative data

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives In England, approximately one in thirty children spend time in out-of-home care (OHC) by age 18.Use of OHC is known to vary across the country, which may be explained in part by ethnic group differences in the risk of being placed in OHC. This
Louise McGrath-Lone, Katie Harron, Lorraine Dearden, Bilal Nasim, Ruth Gilbert   +4 more
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Differences in prescribing and dispensing at end-of-life between people who died at home before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland.

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives To compare levels of palliative care need that were met through prescriptions and dispensing of medicines at end-of-life for people who died at home in Scotland during and prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jan Savinc, Iain Atherton
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Administrative Data Should Be Questioned [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2016
Hospital discharge data (=administrative data) have been used for some time in order to measure the quality of hospital treatments. In this context, Mansky in a recently published review article pointed out the good validity of administrative data. By contrast, a systematic qualitative review found that the sensitivity of quality indicators—drawn from ...
Ernst, Hanisch, Thomas Friedrich, Weigel
openaire   +2 more sources