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Key factors in the establishment of an academia-government center of public sector administrative data and policy research

Author: Ted McDonald, James Ayles
Year: 2018
Category: Research Methods

Journal article

Description

A collaborative between the Government of New Brunswick (GNB) and the University of New Brunswick to establish a center of public sector administrative data and policy research was envisioned in 2012. Subsequent work between the parties led to the establishment of the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (now DataNB) in 2014.

Academia-government partnerships are not unique in Canada, however what sets this apart is:

  1. the legislative approach used to support research,
  2. scope of administrative data made available,
  3. value placed on anonymized linked data,
  4. governance overseeing the partnership, and
  5. measures taken to ensure the protection of citizens’ data.