Reports and Publications
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The National Records of Scotland Beyond 2011 programme produced a range of publications and reports.
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Working Papers
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Comparison of Population Counts from Aggregated Administrative Data and the Mid-Year Population Estimates (13 July 2012) |
Technical Reports and Publications
The following papers consist of technical/mathematical notation, information and data that is not always possible to explain in plain English.
National Records of Scotland Reports
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Matching the Census 2011 to the NHS Central Register using the Ord Wood method |
This paper reports a project run in 2012/2013 to match the results of the 2011 Census in Scotland to the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) extract as it stood at the end of May 2011 |
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The Ord Wood Project: A |
This is a technical paper presenting a method for calculating match probabilities from record linkage output |
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Population Estimates Comparison Project: Data Sources Review |
This report documents and reviews the data sources that have contributed to the work of the National Records of Scotland’s (NRS) Population Estimates Comparison Project |
Other Organisation Reports
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Review of Methods for Estimating Populations with Administrative Data |
The aims of this report are to review current research on combining administrative data and to set out a proposal for investigating the use of statistical modelling techniques for population estimation using administrative data. |
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Population estimates for Data and Intermediate Zones Using Administrative Data |
A report considering the use of statistical modelling techniques to produce small area population estimates using administrative datasets |
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Population Estimates for Data and Intermediate Zones Using Administrative Data - |
A follow-up report to that produced by Queen Mary University of London. This report uses the same statistical techniques but applied to raw administrative data and compared to final Census 2011 data. Report by National Records of Scotland |
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This report describes a feasibility study for estimating population sizes using capture-recapture methods. |
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The Use of Administrative Data Sets in Compiling Population Estimates Part 1 |
This report investigates the degree of consistency between population counts at data zone level taken from the 2011 Census and corresponding counts taken from administrative data sets as they stood at the time the census was taken |
| The Use of Administrative Data Sets in Compiling Population Estimates Part 2 |
This report investigates the degree of consistency between population counts by gender, five year age band and intermediate zone taken from the 2011 Census and corresponding counts taken from administrative data sets as they stood at the time the census was taken |
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This report investigates how the degree of stochastic dependency between inclusion in each of two surveys can be modelled by assuming that the propensity to participate in surveys follows a beta distribution |
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| Inferences on the binomial parameter of a finite population |
This report proposes that the beta-binomial distribution can be used as the basis for a method to calculate the 95% confidence interval of the estimate of the proportion of a finite population which possesses a dichotomous attribute |
| Confidence intervals for capture-recapture data (A, B, C known) |
This report proposes a Bayesian argument for estimating the distribution of the number of persons not included in either of two enumeration samples such as a census and a census coverage survey. The distribution is modelled as a function of the degree of stochastic dependency between inclusion in the two samples |