The Management of Administrative Data in Spain: Diagnosis and Challenges

Abstract

The neighboring countries have taken important steps to manage and facilitate access to the vast amount of data generated and compiled by public administrations, which represents an opportunity to improve the evaluation of public policies, promote the design of new policies building on the available evidence and expand scientific knowledge using administrative records. However, despite some recent isolated initiatives, Spain is lagging behind. Based on the comparative analysis of the experience in other advanced countries and highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of the different options that we have, we make proposals to improve the access to administrative data in order to take advantage of the potential of existing data to promote policies based on scientific evidence in Spain.

Keywords:

administrative data, access, research, evidence-based policies

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