IntroductionLinking the existing longitudinal data assets with administrative datasets provide the opportunity to transform longitudinal data into valuable assets to inform research and policy development.
 Objectives and ApproachThis paper will focus on Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) data linkage landscape and consents which are invaluable for the development of evidence-based health-social-economic policies.
 ResultsLSAC is Australia’s first nationally-representative longitudinal study of child development. Since 2004, two cohorts of 5,000 children and their parents have been interviewed every two years (B (baby) cohort and K (kindergarten) cohort). Over the years, multiple data linkage has been undertaken based on either parental consent or study child consent.
 In 2004 parents were asked to consent on behalf of the study child to link Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)/Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) and Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) administrative data to LSAC. The consent rate was 93% was for MBS, PBS and ACIR. Nearly 90% of B cohort parents
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