Affiliations: National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), France
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Corresponding author: O. Haag, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), France. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: In order to rationalize the massive use of administrative data in the production of demographic and social statistics, the French national statistical institute (INSEE) has decided to launch a program to create a system of interconnected registers of individuals, dwellings and households. This program, called RESIL, is based on the mobilization of external data, particularly administrative data, in strict compliance with the conditions for the protection of individual data. Thus, through these registers, INSEE will have a reference universe that will allow: (i) to constitute the sampling frames as well as the calibration margins of household surveys; (ii) to measure the quality of the coverage of sources; and (iii) to match different datasets: surveys with administrative data, administrative data with administrative data in order to provide richer information. To set up this information system, INSEE will draw on international experiences, as it plans to use methodologies already implemented in several national statistical institutes, including:
•deterministic and probabilistic matching methods for identifying and comparing different administrative sources. These methods are essential insofar as France does not have a unique and shared identifier;•the sign of life method to define the reference population from the presence of individuals in several input data;•the Dual System Estimation methodology to measure the quality of coverage of the registers using annual population census data (it is a real opportunity to have these annual points of comparison to assess the quality of the registers, especially during the set-up period).
This paper will therefore present the stakes and the context, in particular the legal context, of the implementation of these registers, and will then describe the main methodological principles and the proofs of concept planned for its implementation.
Keywords: Administrative data, registers, sign of life, DSE, matching
