Glossary:Micro Data Linking (MDL)

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<Micro Data Linking (MDL) is a statistical method for combining data available for individual entities. Entities may be enterprises or persons or, also, a combination of the two.

In official statistics, it has become a strategic approach for exploring new informative needs (for example, globalization and green transition) without increasing the statistical burden on respondents.

MDL may use traditional statistical sources - for example, data collected with surveys already conducted in the member states under the European regulation - but also new data collections, such as administrative sources available in the member states or, as a promising future perspective, the vast amount of big data emerging from private-sector data sources.

In the European Structural Business Statistics, [Glossary:Statistical_business_register_(SBR)|national Statistical Business Registers (SBS)]] of enterprises represent the crucial statistical infrastructure for implementing MDL techniques. They provide the necessary linking keys that uniquely identify the unit of interest – the enterprise - in the various business domains of interest.>

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