Question

Explain any two administrative sources?

Answer 1

Administrative sources have traditionally been defined as collections of data held by other parts of government, collected and used for the purposes of administering taxes, benefits or services. Perhaps the most comprehensive of the traditional definitions was set out by Gordon Brackstone of Statistics Canada in his 1987 paper “Statistical Issues of Administrative Data: Issues and Challenges”. Brackstone identified four distinguishing features of administrative data:

The agent that supplies the data to the statistical agency and the unit to which the data relate are different (in contrast to most statistical surveys.

The data were originally collected for a definite non-statistical purpose that might affect the treatment of the source unit.