Defining Areas: Linking Geographic Data in New Zealand

Arthur Grimes, David Maré and Melanie Morten

No 06_07, Working Papers from Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Abstract: This paper develops a match quality statistic to quantify the trade-off between 'specificity' and 'completeness' when aggregating one regional aggregation to another. We apply this statistic to calculate the degree of mismatch between various regional aggregations for New Zealand using 1991 and 2001 Census Data. A program to calculate mismatch statistics is included as an appendix, as a Stata(r) ado file.

Keywords: Match quality; Geographic Aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2006-08
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