MESH
Chapter 13
Use of administrative data
and data matching
Julian Prime
Madrid; 4 May 2012
Chapter 13 - structure
• Pros and cons of using administrative data
• Summary of what energy administrative data individual countries
use and for what purposes?
• Reconciliation between top-down survey results and bottom up
admin data
• Where can administrative data be sourced?
• Importance of designing policies with a focus on monitoring and
evaluation
• What is data matching
• What are the benefits and challenges of data matching?
• Examples of what countries doing
Chapter 13 – issues to consider
• Agree on chapter differences between aggregate
administrative data (should this be wholly within chapter 5)
and individual consumer admin data (used for chapter 13).
Coverage of reconciliation between the two?
• Legal issues – use of data & implications will vary between
countries … level of generalisation / specifics?
– “Protocol” issues – linking with data from other
Government departments
• Approach where not all data is available at individual
consumer level.
– Consider missing variables and households (coverage)
• Coverage of wider data / statistical / policy benefits of data
matching
Chapter 13 – issues to consider
• Approach where not all data is available at individual
consumer level.
– Consider missing variables and households (coverage)
• Should designing control groups be included in section 13.5
when referring to evaluation – or just refer to theory.
• Applicability of lessons for countries with different legal issues
/ types of admin data?
• Should chapter 13.2 also give details of countries that do
have some individual level admin data, but don’t use it … and
why?