EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRODUCING DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS AND ORGANIZING THE POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE QUALITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRODUCING DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS AND ORGANIZING THE POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Summary/Abstract: The evaluation of administrative data is an important step in the process of harnessing the potential of data from administrative sources to be used for statistical purposes. Based on the international experience and good practices of the National Statistical Offices, which already use administrative data in statistical production, it has been found that they can have a variety of uses, including direct variable substitution, the addition of auxiliary variables to obtain more detailed information than the provided in statistical surveys to be collected from respondents, validation of estimates obtained from surveys and as components used in the statistical production process (e.g. imputation either directly to obtain a value when the respondent does not provide one, or as an input to models used to impute missing values and weighting), to improve the final results. In 2024, the Republic of Moldova intends to carry out the Population and Housing Census of the 2020 Round, and according to the methodology, it will be a statistical exercise according to the combined model, by using data from administrative sources and collecting data in the field. In this context, the evaluation of the data from the existing administrative sources in the country, which possibly meet the statistical needs of the RPL, are an imperative of the time.

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