期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2015
卷号：2015
出版社：Bergen
摘要：Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computingcapacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and inmanners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world hasdeveloped this remarkable capacity to store and analyze data, so have the world’sgovernments developed large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforceinformation, benefit programs, health, and education. While these data are collected forpurely administrative purposes, they represent remarkable new opportunities for expandingour knowledge. This chapter describes some of the benefits and challenges associated withthe use of administrative data in education research. We also offer specific case studies ofdata that have been developed in both the Nordic countries and the United States, and offeran (incomplete) inventory of data sets used by social scientists to study education questionson every inhabited continent on earth
