Address Match Types

The Address match type is designed to help parse, normalize, and phonetically encode an address for matching or standardizing address information. Address matching adds several fields to the object structure and to the match string. If you specify an address field for blocking, the parsed fields are added to the blocking query. The corresponding standardization type for fields selected for Address matching is Address. The actual match type assigned to each field varies depending on the type of information in each field.

The fields created when you select the Address match type for a field are listed below along with their corresponding match types in the Match Field file (field_name refers to the name of the field selected for Address matching).

Only specify this type of matching for one street address field; otherwise, the wizard will create duplicate entries in the object structure. If more than one field contains the street address, you can define the additional fields in the standardization structure in the Match Field file after the wizard creates the configuration files.

If you want to search on street addresses but do not want to use these fields for matching, select the Address match type for only one street address field in the wizard. When the wizard is complete, you can remove the address fields from the match string in the Match Field file.