International Statistical Agencies: What can we learn from other countries about how they are using administrative data to supplement, enhance, or create new statistical products?

The U.S. Census Bureau is transforming and modernizing its use of data across surveys and integrating it with administrative data to enhance the decennial census and current surveys and to create new statistical products. We examined statistical agencies in other countries to learn how they are modernizing their operations to take advantage of administrative and other data sources, such as private-sector data, to supplement, enhance, or create new data products. To do this, we summarized presentations by international statistical agencies in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. In parallel, we interviewed representatives from a similar set of statistical agencies in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland.

Lanman K, Davis O, Stephanie S. International Statistical Agencies: What can we learn from other countries about how they are using administrative data to supplement, enhance, or create new data products? Technical Report BI-2023. Proceedings of the Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; 2023 October.