Administrative Data Research Centres 2018

行政数据（即主要为行政目的收集的信息）长期以来一直为中央政府和其他统计数据做出贡献。然而，在过去的15-20年里，技术进步已经看到了一场革命，中央和地方政府以及英国各地的专业机构建立了非常大的行政数据库。这种数据库的存在使行政数据有可能以简化的形式成为社会科学学术研究的核心资源。许多北方欧洲国家（特别是丹麦、芬兰、挪威和瑞典）在这方面走在更前面，因为它们从1980年代起就更加重视编制国家“登记数据”，以取代国家人口普查和主要调查。为了应对这种可能性，在ESRC的支持下，苏格兰行政数据研究中心（ADRC-S）与苏格兰NHS和苏格兰政府一起开发了一项服务，用于在苏格兰开展匿名的行政数据研究。这使我们能够对一系列非常不同的问题获得重要的见解，包括：无家可归对健康的影响，国家照顾儿童的类型，贫困对儿童发展的影响，苏格兰在生命结束时给予的照顾以及移动如何帮助或阻碍社会流动。现有的服务主要基于获得许可和集合，一个项目一个项目的过程，数据集由一个研究小组使用。虽然在合作启动期间采取了明智的方法，但现在很明显，为了更有效，安全，公平地工作并节省纳税人的钱，需要基于统一的治理和许可流程的研究准备数据库。下一阶段资金的建议旨在实现这一目标。与苏格兰国家统计局合作，ADRC-S将特别提供这种新方法的价值证据。它将通过一系列具有重要战略意义的工作来做到这一点。这些活动将特别关注苏格兰国家绩效框架内的关键问题，该框架提供了“我们希望成为的国家的总体愿景”，重点将放在以下委员会主题上：“贫困和公平工作”-将探讨就业模式，包括不安全和进步;就业的物质利益，以及它在多大程度上减少贫困风险;以及就业与健康之间的关系。 - “包容、赋权、有弹性和安全的社区”将解决一系列围绕犯罪、司法和紧急服务需求变化模式的问题，这些需求是由人口中的脆弱性和心理健康所支撑的。 - “实现我们的潜力”-旨在更好地了解国家照顾的年轻人的进步。什么是不同的护理配置文件的影响（如在家里或在照顾）和国家的变化对儿童的结果，特别是他们的教育成果的频率- '健康和积极'将探讨健康和社会护理之间的相互作用和非正式护理的影响，为老年人提供服务。在年轻人方面，它将调查新出现的优先事项：心理健康和福祉，贫困和不平等以及身体活动，特别是这些如何在整个生命过程中发展。adrc-s团队将与其NHS合作伙伴密切合作，为其他团队提供新兴研究数据集。

Administrative data (that is, information collected primarily for administrative purposes) has long contributed to central government and other statistics. However in the last 15-20 years, technological advancement has seen something of a revolution with the formation of very large administrative databases held by central and local government, and by specialist agencies across the UK. The existence of such databases raises the possibility that administrative data could become, in an annoymised form, a core resource for social science academic research. Many northern European countries (notably Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) are further ahead in this regard, as they have placed much greater emphasis on developing national 'register data' from the 1980s onwards, to replace national censuses and major surveys. In response to this possibility and supported by the ESRC the Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland (ADRC-S), with the NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, has developed a service for carrying out anonymised administrative based data research in Scotland. This has allowed important insights to be gained on a very diverse set of issues including: the impact of homelessness on the health, the type of care given to children been look after by the state, the impact of poverty on child development, what care is being given at the end of life in Scotland and how moving helps or hinders Social mobility.The existing service has principally been based on gaining permission and assembling, project by project process, datasets to be used by a single research group. Whilst a sensible approach during the initiation of the collaboration, it is now apparent that in order to work more efficiently, safely, fairly and to save taxpayers money, research ready data holdings are needed, based on unified process of governance and permissions.This proposal for a next phase funding aims to achieve this. Working in partnership with the Scottish National Statistical Agency, the ADRC-S will, in particular, provide evidence of value within this new approach. It will do this through a series of strategically important pieces of work. These will particularly focus on key issues within Scotland's National Performance Framework which gives 'an overall vision of the country we want to be'.The focus will be on these board themes: - 'Poverty and Fair Work' - which will explore patterns of employment, including insecurity and progression; on the material benefits of employment, and the extent to which it reduces poverty risks; and on the relationship between employment and health. - 'Inclusive, empowered, resilient and safe communities' - will address a set of questions around shifting patterns of crime, justice and emergency service demand that are underpinned by vulnerability and mental health within the population. - 'Realising our potential' - aims to better understand the progress of young people looked after by the state. What is the impact of different care profiles (e.g. look after at home or in care) and frequency of changes of states on children's outcomes, and particularly their educational outcomes - 'Healthy and active' will explore the interactions between health and social care and the implications of informal care for service delivery for older people. In regards younger it will investigate emerging priorities around: mental health and well-being, poverty and inequality and physical activity and in particular how these develop across the lifecourse.The adrc-s team will work closely with its NHS partner to provide other teams access to the emerging research datasets.