Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records.
ALSPAC
birth cohort
crime
linkage
police data
Journal
Wellcome open research
ISSN: 2398-502X
Titre abrégé: Wellcome Open Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101696457
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
accepted:
20
01
2023
medline:
7
8
2023
pubmed:
7
8
2023
entrez:
7
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This data note describes a new resource for crime-related research: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) linked to regional police records. The police data were provided by Avon & Somerset Police (A&SP), whose area of responsibility contains the ALSPAC recruitment area. In total, ALSPAC had permission to link to crime records for 12,662 of the 'study children' (now adults, who were born in the early 1990s). The linkage took place in two stages: Stage 1 involved the ALSPAC Data Linkage Team establishing the linkage using personal identifiers common to both the ALSPAC participant database and A&SP records using deterministic and probabilistic methods. Stage 2 involved A&SP extracting attribute data on the matched individuals, removing personal identifiers and securely sharing the de-identified records with ALSPAC. The police data extraction took place in July 2021, when the participants were in their late 20s/early 30s. This data note contains details on the resulting linked police records available. In brief, electronic police records were available from 2007 onwards. In total, 1757 participants (14%) linked to at least one police record for a charge, offence 'taken into consideration', caution, or another out of court disposal. Linked participants had a total of 6413 records relating to 6283 offences. Almost three quarters of the linked participants were male. The most common offence types were violence against the person (22% of records), drug offences (19%), theft (17%) and public order offences (11%). This data note also details important issues that researchers using the local police data should be aware of, including the importance of defining an appropriate denominator, completeness, and biases affecting police records.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37546715
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18720.1
pmc: PMC10403744
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
47Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2023 Teyhan A et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
No competing interests were disclosed.
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