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Comparison of Survey, Federal, and Commercial Address Data Quality
Comparison of Survey, Federal, and Commercial Address Data Quality
Working Paper Number CARRA-WP-2014-06
Abstract
This report summarizes matching of survey, commercial, and administrative records housing units to the Census Bureau Master Address File (MAF). We document overall MAF match rates in each data set and evaluate differences in match rates across a variety of housing characteristics. Results show that over 90 percent of records in survey data from the American Housing Survey (AHS) match to the MAF. Commercial data from CoreLogic matches at much lower rates, in part due to missing address information and poor match rates for multi-unit buildings. MAF match rates for administrative records from the Department of Housing and Urban Development are also high, and open the possibility of using this information in surveys such as the AHS.
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