“Administrative data is an invaluable resource for public good. Let’s use it.”
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However, there are other types of administrative data that are often left out of these debates and developments.
These are not strictly government data, but are the kinds of service monitoring data that may be required by local or national government as part of a grant or ongoing funding programme. by non-statutory funders, such as charities and trusts.
Some may be collected only for a short-term romania rcs data project, but others are part of longer-term funding arrangements; providing the potential for evidence over time. They also may be required of projects in different areas of the country; and therefore could provide evidence over geography, and different types of places. The datasets may be limited – even fragmentary – and have been collected for a specific purpose, and therefore may not include the exact variables that a researcher or policy-maker would ideally want.
However, they are often more extensive, and larger sample sizes, than any alternatives of survey or interview data.
I use such service monitoring data in my research on the journeys women and children make to escape domestic violence. These otherwise hidden and secret journeys away from abuse, can be safely researched using these de-identified datasets; which were originally required by Government funding, and are now archived with the UK Data Service.