The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Health Journal

The Guidelines focus on six key aspects of data linkage. These are the values and ethics in human research relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, transparency and accountability, the quality of the Indigenous status variable on key data sets, the quality of the variables that are used for the linkage, the quality of the linkage itself, and the methods and algorithms used to derive Indigenous status where Indigenous status varies across the individual data sets in the linked data set.

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