Identifying young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in linked administrative data: A comparison of methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the ongoing debate on optimum methods for identification of Indigenous people within linked administrative data, few studies have examined the impacts of method on population counts and outcomes in family-based linkage studies of Aboriginal children.

Objective

To quantify differences between three algorithms in ascertaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in linked administrative data.

Methods

Linked administrative health data for children born in Western Australia (WA) from 2000-2013, were used to examine the cohorts identified by three methods: A) the Indigenous Status Flag (ISF, derived by the WA Data Linkage Branch using a multistage-median approach) for the children alone; B) the ISF of the children, their parents and grandparents; an

SUBMITTER: McNamara BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473276 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature