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The University of Southampton
Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute

Research project: Reducing costs by investing in new knowledge for business data integration, systematisation and access

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The focus of this WP is on two interrelated activities on; the integration of administrative data from different sources; and a complementary activity aimed at exploring actual opportunities, ways and means to access microdata needed for economic research purposes.

This WP involves activities including a notable pilot on the development of an integrated, cross-section and longitudinal, employer-employee database (LEED), covering the entire business (non-agricultural and profit only) sector and labour market in one EU NSI. The objective is to progress and gain further knowledge on data needs, methodologies, procedures and IT tools, with a view to draw useful lessons and provide guidelines for fellow EU NSIs; identify and propose further methodologies and technologies; gain lessons and extend results to other types of registers and sources.

In addition to the above LEED integration activities, the WP will also address problems which concern;

  1. product data quality management and indicators;
  2. access and data dissemination at the microdata level;
  3. the study and experimentation of methodologies for releasing samples of anonymised administrative businesses data, including integrated microdata, at both the national and international level;
  4. alternative ways and means to access and release enterprises integrated microdata sets (e.g. disclosure control methods, Research Data Centres, access to anonymised, complex and detailed integrated microdata, simulation strategies, combined or not with different forms of access to the original confidential data);
  5. allied studies concerning the quality of output and its consequences for the preceding half-products and inputs within a statistical process and the development of a set of indicator types.
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