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Can a change in attitudes improve effective access to administrative data for research?

Ritchie, Felix

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The re-use of administrative data for social research holds great potential. From a privacy perspective, administrative data present some additional challenges, including lack of consent, existence of matching databases, and the association with data breaches by administrative staff.
Access to government data for research is currently undergoing a slow, small but significant transformation from the defensive strategies of the past. A key driver of this is attitudinal change; the new approach is characterised as evidence-based default-open, risk-managed, user-centred decision-making, and offers more security at lower cost with greater researcher value.
Despite its apparent superiority, this approach is still a minority position. It fundamentally challenges the way decisions are made in the public sector, at an individual and institutional level, as well as making risks more explicit. The effective re-use of administrative data may then depend upon the degree to which attitudes to decision-making in the public sector can be changed.

Working Paper Type Working Paper
Publication Date Jan 1, 2016
Deposit Date Sep 15, 2016
Publicly Available Date Sep 15, 2016
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords administrative data, confidentiality, data access, evidence-based decision-making, risk
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/922734
Publisher URL http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bl/research/bristoleconomicanalysis/economicsworkingpapers/economicspapers2016.aspx
Additional Information Additional Information : Economics Working Paper Series 1607
Contract Date Sep 15, 2016

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