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A case study of using Splink : census duplicate matching / by Mary Cleaton, Johanna Hall, Rachel Shipsey, Zoe White and Kristina Xhaferaj.CS11-522/2022-1-2E-PDF

"The authors used the Splink probabilistic linkage package developed by the UK Ministry of Justice, to link census data from England and Wales to itself to find duplicate census responses. A large gold standard of confirmed census duplicates was available meaning that the results of the Splink implementation could be quality assured. This paper describes the implementation and features of Splink, gives details of the settings and parameters that we used to tune Splink for our particular project, and gives the results that we obtained"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency
  • Statistics Canada, issuing body.
TitleA case study of using Splink : census duplicate matching / by Mary Cleaton, Johanna Hall, Rachel Shipsey, Zoe White and Kristina Xhaferaj.
Variant title
  • At head of title: Proceedings of Statistics Canada Symposium 2022 : data disaggregation : building a more representative data portrait of society
Series title
  • [Statistics Canada international symposium series : proceedings], 1709-8211
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Cover title.
  • Issued also in French under title: Étude de cas de l'utilisation de Splink : couplage du recensement pour trouver des doublons.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, March 25, 2024.
Author / Contributor
  • Cleaton, Mary, author.
Description1 online resource (10 unnumbered pages) : graphs.
Catalogue number
  • CS11-522/2022-1-2E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number11-522-X
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