Comparing survey and administrative data
Posted May 9th, 2007 by Tara Murray in Research Methods and EthicsMeasurement Error and Misclassification: A Comparison of Survey and Register Data by Arie Kapteyn and Jelmer Yeb Ypma (RAND working paper WR-283-1) examines survey and administrative data for reliability, and challenges the notion that administrative data represents “the truthâ€.
