Utilization of Administrative Registers using Statistical Knowledge Discovery

The increase in the volume of data collected for administrative purposes has introduced new difficulties in extracting useful information to support decision making. The aim of this study is to present some new methodological approaches for the utilization of administrative registers in research and in production of statistical information by combining fruitful ideas from the fields of statistics and data mining. Since the most important contribution of these ideas lies in understanding of phenomena, problems and data in knowledge discovery processes, the ideas are first described as steps in that process and then also illustrated with a practical real-world example.