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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTERS
BETTER SOCIAL WELFARE STATISTICS?
Vibeke Sky ([email protected]) Unni Beate Grebstad ([email protected])
Division for Social Welfare Statistics
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Reasons for adjustments
• Changes in the Social Welfare Services
• To provide the Public Administration with relevant, complete as well as accurate statistics
• Political decision-making in regard to social policy; dependent on good statistics
• Adjustments are usually necessary every 5th year
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The modification processes of the two statistics
Changes in these areas follows a three-years run;
2012:Planning
2013: Registration
2014:• Data Collection • Processing • Publishing
Family counselling services and Child Welfare Services
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Family counselling services and Mediation for parents
The purpose of the alteration:• Relevance • Quality • Prepare automatically extraction of man-years from
registers• Cost effectiveness• Non-excessive reporting burden
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Child Welfare Services statistics
Why alteration?• New categories of measures the last 5 years• Need for good time-series must be held against the
need for change• Coherence and comparability• Longitudinal data for researchers • Easing the task burden
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Statistics Norway and the readjusting processes
• File description/electronic forms• Checking program• Internal editing system ( e.g. ISEE)• Figures • Reporting guidelines/instructions
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Challenges; Family counselling
• Relevant legislation
• Users needs (Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs)
• Time series vs. change
• Extracting man-years from registers
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Results: Family counselling
• Increasing the relevance of the statistics (e.g. statistics on groups, children's participation)
• Increase the quality of statistics on man-years*
• More effective and less resource-draining data collection and processing of data
*Contracted man-years adjusted for long term leaves
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Challenges – Child Welfare Services
• Old categories of measures
• The Norwegian letters «ÆØÅ»
• ISEE (editing system) had to cope with a hierarchical file structure
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Results - Child Welfare Services
• A database summarizing monthly register status
• Eventually model a new and plausible event history database
• The services themselves will revise the errors
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Better quality in Child Welfare Data?
• We will publish some new and more relevant variables (e.g.notifications, measures involving other services)
• Better opportunities for analysis through more dynamic data for researchers
• New and updated statistics
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Better quality of statistics on family counselling services and mediations?
• A more updated statistical picture of the services
• Increased focus on children and group therapy
• More stable and thus more reliable data capture of man-years from register
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Conclusions about quality
• Evaluation of the readjustments with regard to the well-known «European Statistics Code of Practice»
• Point 12.3: «Revisions are regularly analyzed in order to improve statistical process»
• Our paper is a first step towards analyzing the revision process