Grimes, Arthur; Maré, David C.; Morten, Melanie - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2006
This paper develops a match quality statistic to quantify the trade-off between 'specificity' and 'completeness' when aggregating one regional aggregation to another. We apply this statistic to calculate the degree of mismatch between various regional aggregations for New Zealand using 1991 and...