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Identity Matching Strategies

The Comparison transformation includes predefined identity matching strategies that you can use to find matches for individuals, addresses, or corporate entities.

The following table describes the match operation that each identity matching strategy performs:

Identity Matching Strategy	Match Operation
Address	Identifies an address match.
Contact	Identifies a contact within an organization at a single location.
Corp Entity	Identifies an organization by its legal corporate name.
Division	Identifies an organization at an address.
Family	Identifies a family by a family name and address or telephone number.
Fields	Identifies custom fields that you select.
Household	Identifies members of the same family at the same residence.
Individual	Identifies an individual by name and either ID or date of birth.
Organization	Identifies an organization by name.
Person Name	Identifies a person by name.
Resident	Identifies a person at an address.
Wide Contact	Identifies a contact within an organization regardless of location.
Wide Household	Identifies members of the same family at regardless of location.

Identity matching strategies read reference data files called populations
. Contact your Informatica Administrator user for information about population data files installed on your system.

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