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- The information in these records contains more detailed information about the government services you use. This means we do not have to ask you so many questions in the survey.
- Combining information from administrative records and survey responses helps researchers build a more complete picture of your family and how you use healthcare, schools and other services. This helps us understand the important factors that affect how children develop and how services could be improved to make lives better.
- The study is about what affects children’s lives now and into the future, so it is very valuable for researchers to know about current, past and future circumstances. This is why being able to add information from administrative records both going back in time, and also ongoing into the future is so useful.
- Because adding information from administrative records is so useful, it is done routinely in many other similar studies. It makes the study even more useful for researchers and policymakers, who will use this information to improve public services for everyone.
- For example, adding information from education records can help the government understand how children progress in different schools, and which kinds of schools are most effective at helping children to learn and grow. As a result, education services can be improved for families across the country.