National best practice guidelines for data linkage activities relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2012
Abstract:
This report provides national best practice guidelines for linking data in administrative datasets. It offers guidance on how to derive Indigenous status in administrative datasets when it is missing or inconsistently reported, and includes guidelines in areas such as: values and ethics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research; quality of Indigenous status information in data collections; quality of linkage variables; assessment of quality of data linkage; methods for deriving Indigenous status; and transparency.