Introduction to data linkage
- Open to
- All staff in the Government Statistical Service
- Training category
- Analytical
- Type of training
- Face to face
- Length
- One day
- Organiser
- GSS Capability
- Provider
- GSS Capability
- Location
- London, Newport, Titchfield, Leeds, Other locations available on request
Description:
This course is a classroom-based session aimed at providing participants with an introduction to the principles, theory and practice of data linking. This may be taken as a one-off module, or in combination with other modules as part of the Statistical Analyst (SA) Scheme.
Data linking is playing an increasing role in producing statistics, to support a wide range of users and uses, through integration of data from multiple sources.
There are no pre-requisites for this course, unless being taken as part of the SA scheme.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to understand:
- the difficulties involved in data linkage
- desirable qualities of matching variables
- how to prepare datasets before matching
- different types of linkage methods
- how to link very large datasets
- how to evaluate the quality of your matches
Participants will also be shown some matching methods using Python code.
How to book:
Please email: gss.capability@statistics.gov.uk
Contact:
Email: gss.capability@statistics.gov.uk