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Record-linkage from a technical point of view
Record-Linkage aus technischer Sicht
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract "Record linkage is used for preparing sampling frames, deduplication of lists and combining information on the same object from two different databases. If the identifiers of the same objects in two different databases have error free unique common identifiers like personal identification numbers (P... view more
"Record linkage is used for preparing sampling frames, deduplication of lists and combining information on the same object from two different databases. If the identifiers of the same objects in two different databases have error free unique common identifiers like personal identification numbers (PID), record linkage is a simple file merge operation. If the identifiers contain errors, record linkage is a challenging task. In many applications, the files have widely different numbers of observations, for example a few thousand records of a sample survey and a few million records of an administrative database of social security numbers. Available software, privacy issues and future research topics are discussed." [author's abstract]... view less
Keywords
privacy; data; data acquisition; data capture; data exchange; networking; data bank; engineering; algorithm; statistical method; software; data protection
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Free Keywords
record-linkage; data-mining; privacy preserving protocols
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
12 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 124
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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