New Methods to Support Census Bureau Record Linkage

This project is undertaking research that will improve Census capabilities for entity resolution and record linkage. We have brought together world-class researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, including statistics, survey methodology, economics, history, computer science, and demography. Through this work, we will:

• build on ongoing projects linking Census data products to themselves, to external surveys, and to administrative data
• develop and evaluate approaches that show substantial improvements over current best practices in record linkage and entity resolution
• produce usable and useful diagnostics that can provide substantial improvements in record linkage assessment, with metrics of quality that capture bias and uncertainty

As part of a collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) has started a working group on record linkage. Join us as ISR researchers and others discuss their ongoing projects on record linkage and related topics.

Principal Investigator: 
Margaret Levenstein

Co-Principal Investigator:
Trent Alexander

Co-Investigators: 
Michael Mueller-Smith
Matthew Shapiro

Contact Us:
record-linkage-requests@umich.edu

Sponsor

This project is funded by U.S. Census Bureau cooperative agreement CB21RMD0160004.

Collaborating Institutions