Definition: Record linkage

Category: Population censuses

Process of merging information from different data sources by comparing records for individual statistical units and merging information referring to the same statistical unit (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/881).

Process of merging information from different data sources by comparing the records for the individual statistical units and merging the information for each statistical unit where the unit to which the records refer is the same (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2017.135.01.0006.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2017:135:TOC European Union, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010 of 8 December 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses, as regards the modalities and structure of the quality reports and the technical format for data transmission, Official Journal of the European Union No L 324, 9.12.2010