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Identifying young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in linked administrative data: A comparison of methods

In the ongoing debate on optimum methods for identification of Indigenous people within linked administrative data, few studies have examined the impacts of method on population counts and outcomes in family-based linkage studies of Aboriginal children.

Citation:
McNamara BJ, Jones J, Shepherd C, Gubhaju L, Joshy G, McAullay D, et al. Identifying young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in linked administrative data: A comparison of methods. Int J Popul Data Sci. 2020;5(1):1100.

Keywords:
Aboriginal health, identification, data linkage, Indigenous, child, methodology.

Abstract:
In the ongoing debate on optimum methods for identification of Indigenous people within linked administrative data, few studies have examined the impacts of method on population counts and outcomes in family-based linkage studies of Aboriginal children.