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population register data with other registers containing signs of administrative
life and those identifying potential errors.
• Approaches to link registers: The development of suitable approaches to link
data from different registers is a basic precondition to a register-based census.
This is not only necessary as not all the variables required for a population and
housing census are available in one single register. Also quality assurance
requires reliable and easily implementable linkage procedures to check for
administrative signs of life, but also to analyse the consistency of information
included in more than one register. For a register-based census, two kinds of
record linkage are of particular importance: First, at the level of persons, it
must be possible to link the data of persons included in several registers,
ideally supported by a constant identifier. Second, for production of data on
housing, household and family types, approaches need to be developed to
link the persons to the dwellings they are living in by the use of a building and
dwelling identifier. Further units requiring record linkage procedures include
addresses as well as institutions.
Assuming that the legal, organisational, and technological possibilities to link
registers for statistical purposes will increase, this will also lead to new
opportunities not only for data production, but also for consistency checks
between the values included for the same units in different registers.

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