From: How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study
Linkage cut-off point
Number of false positive links a
Number of missed birth records a
Sensitivity a
22
134
454
92%
23
91
617
89%
24
68
775
86%
25
61
926
83%
27
37
1169
84%
29
32
1422
74%
31
28
1777
68%
35
10
2940
53%
40
3
4383
21%