Discussion on statistical use of administrative data: old and new challenges
Discussion on statistical use of administrative data: old and new challenges
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行政数据统计使用的讨论：新旧挑战
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2012
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A. Karr
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在政府开支缩减的今天，我们正经历各种行政数据的使用急剧增加，作为人口普查和调查等传统形式的“官方统计”数据的补充，甚至取代。种种迹象表明这一趋势将继续下去。虽然各国的原因和经验各不相同，但国家统计局的工作人员似乎对行政数据普遍持悲观态度：认为数据质量低，似乎缺乏对有效性、计量误差和不答复等基本问题的关注，元数据可能毫无用处，甚至根本不存在。“我们被要求处理那些不致力于统计观点的人收集的数据”的态度很常见。我在这里讨论的论文是对这种情况的更有建设性的回应。[1]它们的作者确定并解决了特定的统计问题，并且在很大程度上是朝着正确的方向迈出了一步。这两份报告均在爱尔兰都柏林ISI 2011年的特邀论文会议“关于在编制统计数据时使用登记册的研究”中作了介绍：张立春的“基于登记册的统计的统计理论专题”和巴特·F. M.巴克
In today’s era of curtailed government expenditures, we are experiencing dramatic increase in the use of various kinds of administrative data as supplements to, or even replacements for, traditional forms of ‘official statistics’ data such as census and surveys. There is every indication that the trend will continue. Although the reasons and the experience vary across countries, there seems to be general pessimism among those in national statistics offices (NSOs) regarding administrative data: data quality is seen as low, attention to fundamental issues such as validity, measurement error, and non-response appears to be lacking, and metadata may be useless or not even exist. The attitude ‘we are being asked to deal with data collected by those not dedicated to a statistical perspective’ is common. The papers I discuss here are more constructive responses to the situation.1 Their authors identify and address particular statistical issues, and do so in ways that are very much steps in the right direction. Both were presented in the Invited Paper Session ‘Research on the Use of Registers in Producing Statistics’ at ISI 2011 in Dublin, Ireland: ‘Topics of Statistical Theory for Register-Based Statistics’ by Li-Chun Zhang and ‘Estimating the Validity of Administrative Variables’ by Bart F. M. Bakker.