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Every payslip we receive, every prescription we pick up, every doctor’s appointment we attend, tax return we submit, or childcare session we book, all create unit records in government systems. These government records, known as administrative data, have the potential to be joined together to enable analysis of public policy challenges where a single dataset would be insufficient. The Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA) is a linked administrative data asset that is managed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It provides secure access to deidentified data on the Australian population across a range of policy areas including health, education, employment, taxation, government transfer payments, and population demographics. With the development of PLIDA, Australia is joining global leaders like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland in the linked administrative data space. In this paper, we explore opportunities to use PLIDA for public policy research and reporting. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4GVqaEi For researchers, this deidentified and secure data presents an opportunity to move from small surveys with several thousand respondents, to multimillion anonymised datasets – the equivalent of moving from single track audio to surround sound when listening to the stories that society is telling policy makers. For example, linking income data with location, health, education, and employment data over time can help researchers develop a greater appreciation of the potentially complex nature of disadvantage. #DataAnalysis #PLIDA #PersonLevelData #Behaviour #AdministrativeData #AusEcon #AusPol #Policy #PolicyResearch #Research #PolicyDevelopment #PublicPolicy

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Our social media team won the APS Data Award for Data Visualisation and Storytelling earlier this month! This award recognises our ability to bring complex data to life in engaging and impactful ways. The ABS was also highly commended in two other categories: Agriculture Statistics Modernisation (Ag Stats) in the Data Sharing and Partnership category, and Australian National Data Integration Infrastructure (ANDII) in the Data Engineering category.