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Big Data is not the New Oil: Common Misconceptions about Population Data

@inproceedings{Christen2021BigDI,
  title={Big Data is not the New Oil: Common Misconceptions about Population Data},
  author={Peter Christen and Rainer Schnell},
  year={2021}
}
. Databases covering all individuals of a population are increasingly used for research and decision-making. The massive size of such databases is often mistaken as a guarantee for valid inferences. However, population data have characteristics that make them challenging to use. Various assumptions on population coverage and data quality are commonly made, including how such data were captured and what types of processing have been applied to them. Furthermore, the full potential of population… 
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