Synthetic Administrative Data: Census 1991, 2023

We create a synthetic administrative dataset to be used in the development of the R package for calculating quality indicators for administrative data (see: https://github.com/sook-tusk/qualadmin) that mimic the properties of a real administrative dataset according to specifications by the ONS. Taking over 1 million records from a synthetic 1991 UK census dataset, we deleted records, moved records to a different geography and duplicated records to a different geography according to pre-specified proportions for each broad ethnic group (White, Non-white) and gender (males, females). The final size of the synthetic administrative data was 1033664 individuals.

我们构建了一款合成行政数据集（synthetic administrative dataset），用于开发用于计算行政数据质量指标的R包（R package），相关开源仓库地址为：https://github.com/sook-tusk/qualadmin。该数据集严格遵循英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）的规范，模拟真实行政数据集的核心属性特征。我们从一款合成的1991年英国人口普查数据集中提取了逾100万条记录，随后按照预先设定的各宽泛族群（白人（White）、非白人（Non-white））与性别（男性、女性）的比例，执行了记录删除、将记录迁移至不同地理区域，以及为不同地理区域复制记录的操作。该合成行政数据集的最终规模为1033664名个体。