The Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset: using record linkage to create a longitudinal sample from a series of cross-sections

摘要

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is creating a longitudinal sample, called the Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset (ACLD), by linking person records across its five-yearly Census of Population and Housing. This paper proposes a Multi-Panel framework for selecting and weighting records in the ACLD. This framework can be applied more generally to selecting longitudinal samples from a series of cross-sectional administrative files. The proposed framework avoids some significant limitations of the popular Top-Up' sampling approach to maintaining the cross-sectional and longitudinal representativeness of a sample over time.