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Linking longitudinal studies of ageing with administrative data: Second interim report

6 Apr 2022

The project remit is to evaluate the administrative data linkage of the surveys belonging to the Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) family on the Gateway to Global Ageing (G2G) platform. [...] While the validation of survey data was the single most cited benefit of administrative data linkage (seven studies), eight of the ten linked studies (at time of interview) also cited the mutual complementarity of longitudinal study data and administrative data and the broadening of research possibilities that linkage enables. [...] Its remit is to evaluate the administrative data linkage of the surveys belonging to the Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) family on the Gateway to Global Ageing (G2G) platform, identifying the extent and nature of linkage to date and the associated benefits and challenges. [...] For the Health and Social Care data, it took 15 months to lay the groundwork with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the University and the Business Services Organisation (BSO) Honest Broker services before the research application to use the administrative data was written. [...] The length of time taken to build relationships and navigate the application/approval process, between two and ten years, meant that there was a risk of disruption from regime changes, as demonstrated by the NICOLA experience of the implementation of GDPR which necessitated the rewriting of the documentation.

Authors

Anne Gasteen

Pages
64
Published in
United Kingdom