Statistical Disclosure Control in Practice
Published on 11. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 154 pages
978-0-387-94722-8 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this book is to discuss various aspects associated with disseminating personal or business data collected in censuses or surveys or copied from administrative sources. The problem is to present the data in such a form that they are useful for statistical research and to provide sufficient protection for the individuals or businesses to whom the data refer. The major part of this book is concerned with how to define the disclosure problem and how to deal with it in practical circumstances.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 154 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-387-94722-8 (9780387947228)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-4028-0
Schweitzer Classification
Content
1 Introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The increasing importance of SDC.- 1.3 The Problems.- 2 Principles.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Basic Concepts.- 2.3 Preliminaries on the SDC for Microdata.- 2.4 The Philosophy of SDC for Microdata.- 2.5 The World According to a Releaser of Microdata.- 2.6 SDC for Tables.- 3 Policies and Case Studies.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Options for Data Dissemination.- 3.3 SDC Policy for Microdata of Various Statistical Offices.- 3.4 The Netherlands: WSA.- 3.5 Great Britain: Samples of Anonymized Records.- 3.6 Eurostat.- 3.7 Luxemburg Income Study.- 4 Microdata.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 SDC rules.- 4.3 SDC for Microdata Sets in Practice.- 5 Microdata: Backgrounds.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Estimation of Population Frequencies.- 5.3 Continuous Variables.- 5.4 Global Recoding and Local Suppression.- 5.5 Sampling Weights.- 5.6 The Re-identification Risk of an Entire Microdata Set.- 6 Tabular Data.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Tables with Magnitude Data.- 6.3 Sensitive Cells in Frequency Count Data.- 6.4 Disclosure Control Measures.- 6.5 Recommendations.- 6.6 Linked Tables.- 7 Tabular Data: Backgrounds.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Sensitivity Measures.- 7.3 Secondary Cell Suppression.- 7.4 Stochastic Rounding.- 7.5 Linked Tables.- 8 Loose Ends.- References.