Historical data linkage quality : the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults, and tax records on labour and income / by James Hemeon.: CS89-648/2016-1E-PDF
Linkages between survey and administrative data are an increasingly common practice, due in part to the reduced burden to respondents, and to the data that can be obtained at a relatively low cost. Historical linkage, or the linkage of administrative data from previous years to the year of the survey, compounds these benefits by providing additional years of data. This paper examines the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA), which was linked to historical tax data on personal income tax returns (T1) and those collected from employers’ files (T4), among others not mentioned in this paper. It presents trends in historical linkage rates, compares the coherence of administrative data between the T1 and T4, presents the ability to use the data to create balanced panels, and uses the T1 data to produce age-earnings profiles by sex. The results show that the historical linkage rate is high (over 90% in most cases) and stable over time for respondents who are likely to file a tax return, and that the T1 and T4 administrative sources show similar earnings. Moreover, long balanced panels of up to 30 years in length (at the time of writing) can be created using LISA administrative linkage data.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. |
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| Title | Historical data linkage quality : the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults, and tax records on labour and income / by James Hemeon. |
| Variant title | Longitudinal and International Study of Adults, and tax records on labour and income |
| Series title | Longitudinal and International Study of Adults research paper series, 1927-0100 ; [no. 001] |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Qualité du couplage rétrospectif des données : l’Étude longitudinale et internationale des adultes et les données fiscales sur les gains et le revenu. "Release date: August 18, 2016.” Includes bibliographical references (p. 15). |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada, c2016. |
| Author / Contributor | Hemeon, James. |
| Description | 16 p. |
| ISBN | 978-0-660-05733-0 |
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| Departmental catalogue number | 89-648-X |
| Subject terms | Personal income tax Surveys Administrative data Statistical analysis |
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