Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction
    2. Policy issues that could be investigated
      1. Research into links between child welfare, homelessness and juvenile justice
      2. Policy questions for investigation
      3. Possible types of analysis
    3. State of readiness for data linkage
      1. Supported Accommodation Assistance Program
      2. Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set
      3. Child Protection National Minimum Data Set
      4. Summary and conclusions
    4. Privacy, confidentiality and consent
      1. Personal information, privacy and data linkage
      2. Privacy and data linkage at the AIHW
      3. Consent
      4. Personal information and privacy regulations
      5. Process of data linkage
    5. Methodological issues
      1. Overview of data linkage method
      2. Treatment of missing linkage key data
      3. Variation in linkage keys and validity testing
      4. Timing of data
      5. Overview of linked data set
  • End matter
    • Appendix 1 Jurisdictional data linkage approval processes
    • Appendix 2 Data collection items
      • SAAP data collection
      • Juvenile Justice NMDS
      • Child Protection NMDS
    • References