Maintaining public trust while increasing the use of integrated data for policy development and evaluation, and research: Experiences from Australia
Conference
65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025
Format: IPS Abstract - WSC 2025
Keywords: "privacy, data-linkage, trust
Thursday 9 October 2 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. (Europe/Amsterdam)
Abstract
Combining administrative and survey datasets about people and businesses and making these datasets available to policy analysts and researchers enables new insights into complex economic and social policy questions. And the use of these data poses a range of new privacy, ethics and trust questions for a National Statistical Agency. This paper examines the use of integrated data through the lens of maintaining public trust and reflects on the experiences in Australia over recent years.