TY -
GEN
AU - Figlio, D.
AU - Karbownik, K.
AU - Salvanes, K.G
TI -
Chapter 2. Education Research and Administrative Data
SN - 0444634673
SN - 9780444634672
KW - Education research
KW - Administrative data
KW - Linked data
KW - Education registers
KW - Empirical methods
PY - 2016
N2 - Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to store and analyze data, so have the world's governments developed large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforce information, benefit programs, health, and education. While these data are collected for purely administrative purposes, they represent remarkable new opportunities for expanding our knowledge. This chapter describes some of the benefits and challenges associated with the use of administrative data in education research. We also offer specific case studies of data that have been developed in both the Nordic countries and the United States, and offer an (incomplete) inventory of data sets used by social scientists to study education questions on every inhabited continent on earth.
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -