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This paper develops a match quality statistic to aid researchers in linking regional data that are available at inconsistent levels of aggregation. The match quality statistic developed in the paper allows researchers to make their own decisions regarding the trade‐off between specificity and completeness when choosing a basis for linking such data. We illustrate this statistic with the example of...