This chapter from The National Academy of Sciences volume, Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues, focuses on the cleaning and linking of administrative data gathered during the delivery of human services, on birth certificates, and in other ways, so that the data can be used to examine and evaluate social programs and to better understand particular populations.

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