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User's Guide for the Generalized Record Linkage Program Generator (GENLINK) SRD Program Generator System User's Guide: Part III
User's Guide for the Generalized Record Linkage Program Generator (GENLINK) SRD Program Generator System User's Guide: Part III
RR86-19
Introduction
GENLINK stands for GENeralized record LINKer. GENLINK is one of a series of Bureau of the Census, Statistical Research Division, COBOL program code generators written in UNIMAC. UNIMAC is a high-level language macro processor language which itself is implemented in COBOL-74. GENLINK can be used to generate a program which creates a “pointer” file containing information that can be used to “link” corresponding records of two files based on different kinds of comparisons of user selected data fields contained on both files. This pointer file can be used together with the original data files to generate reports and new data files containing new “linked” records and unmatched and marginally matched data records or reports. Part V of this series describes a program generator which generates a program that can be used as by itself or as the basis of a more sophisticated record linkage “extractor”.
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