Institute of Education London

Administrative Data - Methods, Inference and Networks (ADMIN)

Centre Director

Professor Lorraine Dearden

ADMIN was initially set up as an ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Node between September 2008 and August 2011.
ADMIN work continuous to focus on the use of administrative data sources either linked with each other or linked to survey data.

We utilise the linkages to:

• strengthen the analysis of the survey data,
• better understand the more limited models that can be fitted to administrative data,
• consider problems not easily answered with surveys.

ADMIN also offers training courses, online materials and publications. Finally, we pursue our aims by developing an international network of researchers.