Equifax has created a consumer services database on individuals' telecommunications, utilities, cable and satellite payments that mortgage lenders can access if borrowers believe these records will improve their chance to qualify.
However, a range of other data items is common to both data sets, and so the challenge is to determine whether there is sufficient information on the two data sets to allow reliable record linkage to generate a linked database on individuals who move from hospital to the residential care sector which could then be used for analysis of patterns of movements.
This project is part of a decade-long research project that Nakamura has been working with coauthors Jon Steinsson, Patrick Sun and Daniel Villar to construct a broad-based database on individual prices in the U.S. economy going back to the late 1970's.
The Austrian Labour Force Survey (micro-census) (Kytir and Stadler 2004) serves as database on individual-level, conducted quarterly for the period from 2006 to 2012.
An improved database on individual chemical toxicity developed using new techniques or end points (e.g., genetics, endocrine testing) may improve the assessment of individual chemicals and aid in the development of computer models.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan regularly conducts comprehensive surveys of living conditions that provide a large database on individual problems and concerns, including information on a variety of personal problems, work condition issues and psychological distress [ 12].
Adam Tanner, Balkans bureau chief for Thomson Reuters, will study the expanding computer universe of personal data, including how private firms and governments assemble massive databases on individuals and the implications for business, journalism, the law and privacy.
Such tests have for a while now been able to tell people what part of the world their ancestors came from, but because DNA databases on individuals are now in place, Mr. Underwood gets a much more specific surprise.
Originally, the record system, known as the national identity register, was to have been entirely newly-built, in order to avoid contamination from errors in existing database files on individuals.
A second bill would prohibit state agencies from providing information to the federal government on a person's religious affiliation if it is to be used for the purposes of compiling a database of individuals based solely on religious affiliation.
These countries may lack social security databases on individual workers that allow cost-effective methods of cross-checking the benefit receipt with earnings or the receipt of other benefits.
