Skip to content

Repository for "Methodological advancements on the use of administrative data in Official Statistics - User Manual".

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

sook-tusk/qualadmin

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

40 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

README

Repository for "Quality Indicators for Administrative Data User Manual For R Package on GitHub - User Manual".

The project was funded by the Grant: ‘Methodological Advancements on the Use of Administrative Data in Official Statistics’ ESRC (ES/V005456/1), United Kingdom.

A Brief Introduction

This repository hosts an R programme and a user manual to produce quality indicators to assess the representativeness of administrative data.

The manual guides you through implementing R code files to obtain quality measures of the target administrative data. The quality measures consist of two elements: distance metrics and R-indicators.

Please consult the accompanying paper, Shlomo and Kim (2025) for a full discussion on the distance metrics and R-indicators.

User Manual Changelog

  • v1.1 Dec 2022 First release
  • v1.2 Jan 2023 Contents (RUNNING - 2_Prep_Wtsample_Freq_Table.R) enhanced
  • v2.0 Oct 2023 R-indicator summary spreadsheet and graphics automation improved
  • v2.1 Dec 2023 Tabled-based R-indicator functions added
  • v2.2 Feb 2024 R-indicator formula updated
  • v2.3 Feb 2024 Minor updates
  • v3.0 May 2025 Bivariate counts added & poprespmean streamlined
  • v3.2 Aug 2025 R-indicator types added

Impact Case Study

The current methodology was adopted by the ONS, and a working paper was published on 8 December 2023.

The report used an administrative dataset for one selected local authority - the admin-based housing by ethnicity dataset (ABHED).

The ONS used Census 2021 for England and Wales as the comparative, population auxiliary data. The application focused on four variables found within both datasets: sex, age group, accommodation type and ethnicity.

The full report is available here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/methodologicalpublications/generalmethodology/onsworkingpaperseries/qualityindicatorsforrepresentativenessinadministrativedatarindicatorsanddistancemetrics

Reference

Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 8 December 2023, ONS website, methodology, Quality indicators for representativeness in administrative data: R-indicators and distance metrics.

Shlomo, Natalie and Kim, Sook (2025). Quality Indicators for representation in administrative data. Survey Methodology, 51(2), 509-532. Available at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-001-x/2025002/article/00006-eng.htm?cmp=cwe-cae

About

Repository for "Methodological advancements on the use of administrative data in Official Statistics - User Manual".

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

 
 
 

Contributors

Languages