Defining areas and linking geographical data: an example from New Zealand

✍ Scribed by Arthur Grimes; David C. Maré; Melanie Morten

• Book ID: 105361252
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 95 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1544-8444
• DOI: 10.1002/psp.541

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper develops a match quality statistic to aid researchers in linking regional data that are available at inconsistent levels of aggregation. The match quality statistic developed in the paper allows researchers to make their own decisions regarding the trade‐off between specificity and completeness when choosing a basis for linking such data. We illustrate this statistic with the example of a New Zealand labour economics research project that required different spatial data to be combined. A program to calculate the match quality statistic, coded as a Stata® ado file, is available on request from the authors. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.