This Open Access book highlights the importance of access to administrative microdata sources. Administrative data presents several advantages: it often covers the entire population, it is almost measurement-error free, its cost of collection, maintenance, and update is covered by its primary use, and it can be linked to other data, including surveys.

Many stakeholders would gain from improved access: the research community would raise the quality and quantity of publications; policymakers and citizens would learn whether policies work; firms would benefit from more market transparency; trust in public institutions would improve. Nonetheless, many barriers still exist. Some of them are due to asymmetrical information between institutions and the general public about the benefits of data access. This book aims to lower this gap, with a focus on the European experience.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part analyses the experiences in the EU countries from the perspective of data users. The second part highlights the benefits for stakeholders in specific policy areas, providing examples of outcomes for individuals, firms, markets, and the environment.

The book lends itself to a three-level reading: first, it provides data users and the research community with a map on how to get access to administrative data in the European Union; second, data-holding institutions can find a host of examples on how to manage and possibly improve data access, with proper safeguards; third, policymakers at both the national and the EU level can identify specific areas of intervention to foster better access to administrative data.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Highlights the value of access to administrative data and other sources of microdata in each EU country Presents best practices in data management to support evidence-based policy and cost-effective policymaking Features case studies from various EU countries

Autorentext

Fabio Berton**** is a Policy Analyst for Impact Evaluation at the Competence Centre for Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Turin, Italy. His research interests are labor economics and policy evaluation.

Paolo Paruolo is Head of the Competence Centre for Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy. His research focuses on time-series econometrics. He served as a Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bologna and University of Insubria, Italy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction (Fabio Berton).- Part I. Experience in EU Countries.- Chapter 2. Working With Large Administrative Datasets in Austria (Omar Bamieh).- Chapter 3. The Use of Administrative Data for Evidence-Informed Policy Development in Belgium (Koen Vleminckx).- Chapter 4. On Some Aspects of Open Administrative Data in Bulgaria (Nikolay Netov).- Chapter 5. The Reality of Administrative Data in Croatia (Natasa Drvenkar).- Chapter 6: Access and Use of Administrative Data: The Case of Cyprus
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos).