Prime esperienze nel recupero di informazioni sulla mortalità neonatale mediante integrazione di dati amministrativi

Cristiano Marini () and Alessandra Nuccitelli ()
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Cristiano Marini: University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Alessandra Nuccitelli: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2009, vol. 11, issue 1, 57-84

Abstract: Neonatal mortality rates by gestational age and birth weight category are important indicators of maternal and child health and care quality. However, due to new laws on administrative simplification and privacy, these specific rates have not been calculated in Italy since 1999. The main aim of this work is to assess the possibility of retrieving information on neonatal mortality by the linkage between records related to live births and records related to infant deaths within the first month of life, with reference to 2003 and 2004 birth cohorts in Italy. From a strict methodological point of view, some critical aspects of the most used record linkage approach are highlighted in the paper: specific problems may arise from the choice of records to be linked if there are consistency constraints between pairs.

Keywords: greedy algorithms; gestational age; birth weight; programming linear; record linkage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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