New Approaches to Creating Data for Economic Geographers
39 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2007
Date Written: June 20, 2007
Abstract
Policymakers, faced with increasing demands to make decisions at a local level, are turning to statistical agencies to provide local data. Advances in matching technology, combined with the reduced cost of archiving, indexing, storing, and curating large-scale datasets, now mean that it is technically feasible to provide information at fine levels of geographic detail by means of combining administrative and survey datasets at lower cost and potentially greater coverage. This paper describes an approach that uses administrative data from U.S. unemployment insurance records to enhance the coverage and accuracy of work location information in the American Community Survey.
Keywords: Administrative and Survey Record Integration, Spatial Analysis, Matching, Imputation, Commuting
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