Statistical Policy Working Paper 5. Report on Exact and Statistical Matching Techniques

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Statistics
  • Statistical analysis
  • Methodology
  • Data files
  • Data quality
  • Federal government agencies
  • Errors
  • Data file matching
  • Exact matching methodology
  • Statistical matching methodology
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Statistical Policy Working Paper 5, GPO Stock Number 003-005-00186-7
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1529892
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
• Abstract:
  This report discusses matching of data files for research and statistical purposes. Two basic types of matching, exact matching and statistical matching, are discussed and applications of those two types by various organizations, mostly government agencies, are described. Matching for other purposes, e.g., administrative purposes, is not considered here. In the matching considered here, identification of units, if needed at all, ordinarily is only necessary to make the match. After matching, that identification can be removed. Most of the discussion in this report is in terms of matching records for natural persons. However, similar considerations apply to matching of records for legal persons, for example, corporations, partnerships, fiduciaries.
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