The nation lacks a central population register or an identity-card system that would allow administrative data to be linked up.

该国缺乏一个中央人口统计处或一个身份认证系统来将管理数据统一起来。

In many European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, the authorities use administrative data collected by public bodies in place of a traditional census.

在很多欧洲国家，包括德国和荷兰，行政当局选择采用公共机构提供的管理数据以代替传统的人口调查。

Yet the authorities should still be investing in working out how to use administrative data better, argues Chris Skinner, a statistician at the London School of Economics.

然而伦敦统计学院的统计学家克里斯? 斯金纳表示，当局应继续研究该如何更好地利用管理数据。