Join us to explore why and how the quality of administrative data linkages can be better communicated to researchers.
Discover established best practice recommendations and enter the dialogue whether and how to better promote their use, and how to come together as a community to ensure best practice remains up-to-date.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together current experienced users of linked administrative data and those new to the field. Participants will unpack how to ensure best practice reporting about data linkage quality. Our understanding of the linkage process and its supporting documentation is necessary for the design of useful research.
Thinking about key questions we will address what data quality is, what research-ready linked datasets and their documentation look like, how can we improve transparency in the reporting process, and how to make it easier to incorporate linked administrative data in the research agenda.
Structured as a talk, in the first 90 minutes, we will briefly introduce and review key concepts and existing recommendations, and share experiences of data linkage quality. In the second 90 minutes, we will explore what a quality report could look like, how to encourage best practice, and how a community interested in data linkage quality should function to ensure best practice is used and updated.
Organisers, facilitators and speakers
- Workshop organisers/speakers/facilitators: Dr Ludivine Garside, Mr Jo Lam, Dr Lola Brookes
- Additional facilitators: Dr Giulia Mantovani, Mr Tony Stone
- Additional speakers: Dr Kate Lewis, Miss Rebecca Langella