What are Batch Match Types and How do they Correspond to Pre-Cleaned Addresses?

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The table below summarises the various match types employed by QAS Batch and why they are appended to processed addresses with reference to the raw data

MATCH TYPE

CODE

POSTCODE

ADDRESS

ACTION

VERIFIED

B

ü

ü

Replace Address with PAF Address

CLOSE VERIFIED

C

ü

Minor mistakes

FULL MATCH

D

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

ü

EXPANDED MATCH

K

ü

Missing elements, no mistakes

CLOSE FULL MATCH

E

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

Minor mistakes

Requires

POSTCODE VERIFIED

P

ü

Most of address is correct but unable to identify delivery point

POSTCODE MATCH

I

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

HALF SECTOR MATCH

H

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

Incomplete, probably to street level

manual

SECTOR MATCH

G

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

Incomplete probably to street level, perhaps locality level

validation,

DISTRICT MATCH

F

Missing, incomplete or incorrect

Incomplete probably to district or town level

with

MULTIPLE MATCH

J

 

With the address supplied there are several possible addresses

Batch

UNMATCHED

A

 

Batch was unable to match address

Interactive

FOREIGN

Z

Contains foreign country, city name or string of numbers at end of address.

 

BLANK

Y

Batch Automatic could not find any input address fields

 

UNPROCESSED

L

Signifies that input address was not processed or returned address is too large for output location.

 

INTERACTIVE ACCEPT

M

Address search in Batch Interactive has produced satisfactory result and has been accepted

 

INTERACTIVE REJECT

N

No suitable address was found with Batch Interactive and address was rejected by the user

 

The above table is an approximation of Batch matching and should only be used as a guide.

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